Australia Day
Tuesday the 26th of January 2010
Australia Day (I)
On 26 January 1788, the English nation invaded the Eora nation, with the intent of establishing a concentration camp for their own lower class.
On 26 January 1938, the Aboriginal peoples established a Day of Mourning to remember the events of 150 years ago and protest their subsequent treatment.
Australia Day (II)
True or false:
- We are young and free?
- We’ve golden soil?
- We’ve wealth for toil?
- We’ve boundless plains to share?
Australia Day (III)
Meme! Have you engaged with Australia’s holidays? Copy the list below and bold the ones you’ve done.
- New Year’s Day (by celebrating the changeover)
- Australia Day (by attending a citizenship ceremony or Survival Day event)
- Labour Day (by being paid by your employer for not working)
- Easter (by celebrating the Resurrection)
- Anzac Day (by attending a dawn service)
- Queen’s Birthday (by singing God Save the Queen)
- Christmas (by celebrating the birth of Christ)
- Boxing Day (by giving to the less fortunate)
For the purposes of this meme, you don’t have to have engaged every year, or plan to do it ever again, you only have to have done it once. I realise that not everyone will be able to engage with every holiday.
Australia Day (IV)
The word barbecue is from Haiti.