#always was always will be

[aardvaark]

i’m so disgusted and saddened by this country tonight, i don’t even have the words right now. i can’t imagine how much more painful this must be for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples, for my Indigenous friends, family members and acquaintances. for now, all i have is some resources.

the First Nations-specific crisis support (suicide) hotline: 13YARN (13 92 76)

the national crisis/suicide hotline: 13 11 14

donate here to pay the rent if you’re living on stolen land (ie all of "australia")

here’s a list of some other Indigenous organisations that accept donations

plus messages from some Indigenous creators to fellow Indigenous people:

and here’s a link to the full post from that last image, there’s a few more pages.

#auspol #referendum #yes23 #voice to parliament #indigenous voice to parliament #always was always will be

[radicalgraff]

The statue of former premier William Crowther in Hobart's Franklin Square was defaced this morning, on the eve of Australia/Invasion day.

Crowther is known for mutilating the remains of a Tasmanian Aboriginal man in 1869.

#graffiti #graff #vandalism #anti-colonial #decolonize #imvasion day #always was always will be #invasion day

[area51-narutorun]

#auspol #the voice to parliament #indigenous voice to parliament #indigenous australia #always was always will be #aboriginal land

[drunkwingtip]

#free Palestine #always was always will be #landback #first rally of 2024 #image description in alt

[soft-displacement]

Love these photos to bits honestly

#invasion day #nipaluna #lutruwita #always was always will be

[claraameliapond]

For Australia, 26th January is invasion day, and that's literally it.

Today is a horrifically sad day in Australian history. Invasion day.

That's literally all it is.

Please please please do not join in the chorus of racism wishing anyone a "Happy Australia day" on the 26th of January

We can, have and are moving forward together as a country,

But we cannot truly do so if a celebration of our country and identity is held on the literal anniversary of the brutal and long-standing invasion, massacre and occupation of Australian aboriginals, the first peoples of Australia.

This invasion and subsequent violent Colonisation was full of many horrors that lasted well into the late twentieth century, and the long-standing repercussions of which have lasted to this day.

The stolen generations , in which generations - multiple generations of young aboriginal children were literally stolen by white colonists from their families, sent to missions, (detention boarding "schools ") , in which they were converted to Christianity and prepared for menial jobs, punished if they ever spoke their own languages, and subsequently put into the service of white families, with the intention to be bred out, never to see their families again. Never to be educated about their home, their families, their land, their culture, their languages, their history; they are the oldest continuing culture on earth. The last of these missions were in effect until 1969. By 1969, all states had repealed the legislation that allowed the removal of Aboriginal children under the policy and guise of "protection".

The indigenous health, longevity and poverty gaps still exist. Access to medicine, medical care, healthcare, a western education, all things we deem human rights by law, are not accessible to many rural communities still. They are provided, but in western ways, on western terms, with a gap of understanding how best to implement those services for an entirely different culture , that we do not have a thorough understanding of - that was what the referendum was about: , how best to implement the funds that are already designated to provide those services, because it's not currently working or usable by those communities. Our aboriginal communities are still not treated equally, nor do they have the same access we all enjoy to things like healthcare services, medicines and western education.

It is horrific and insensitive to therefore celebrate that day as our country's day of identity, because it's literally celebrating the first day and all subsequent days of the invasion, the massacres, the stolen generations, the subjugation and mistreatment, the inequalities that still persist today. It celebrates that day, that act committed on that day, of invasion , violent brutal massacres of Aboriginal people, as a positive, 'good' thing. As something that defines Australia's identity and should define an identity to be proud of.

That's nothing to be proud of.

Our true history is barely taught in our school curriculum, in both primary and secondary school. Not even acknowledged.

It needs to be.

We cannot properly move forward as a country until that truth is understood by every Australian, with compulsory education.

January 26th is Not 'Australia day'. It's Invasion day. It's a sorrowful day of mourning.

Please do not wish anyone a "happy Australia day " today.

It's not happy and it's not Australia day.

Australia day should be at the end of Reconciliation week that is held from the 23rd May to 3rd June.

A sentiment that is about all of us coming together as a shared identity within many identities, accepting and valuing each other as equal, a day that actually acknowledges Australian aboriginal peoples as the first Australians - because they are.

This is literally about acknowledging fact - that is the truth of Australian history. Aboriginal cultures should be celebrated and embraced, learnt from, not ignored, treated as invisible and especially not desecrated by holding celebrations of national identity on anniversaries of their violent destruction.

Australian aboriginal peoples, cultures and histories, should be held up as Australia's proud identity of origins, because it literally is Australia's origins.

That's a huge, foundational integral part of our shared identity that must be celebrated and acknowledged.

Inclusivity, not offensive exclusivity. Australia day used to be on 30th July, also 28th July, among others. Australia Day on the 26th January only officially became a public holiday for all states and territories 24 years ago, in 1994. It's been changed a lot before. It can certainly be changed so it can be a nonoffensive , happy celebration of our shared Australian national identity for everyone, that respectfully acknowledges and includes the full truth of our whole shared history, not just the convenient parts.

There is literally no reason it can't be changed, and every reason to change it.

#Always Was Always Will Be

#Australia #26th January #Invasion day #Important #Morality #Ethics #Australian aboriginal peoples #Always was always will be #Truth #Psa #Indigenous Australians #Indigenous Australia #Aboriginal Australians #Aboriginal children #Aboriginal people #Australian history #Australia day #Australian national identity #Inclusivity #Shared #Auspol

[darlingjmiller]

always was, always will be ❤️💛🖤

#invasion day #survival day #day of mourning #not australia day #january 26th #australia #australia is a settler colony #australians in solidarity with palestine #genocide #from the river to the sea #always was always will be

[vancruejovi]

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark 🦇

#Elvira #elvira mistress of the dark #cassandra peterson #80s #80s music #70s #absolute icon #always was always will be

[thrawns-babygirl]

Nothing makes me more upset to be Australian than the way people behave around Jan 26th. Today shouldn't be a day of celebration. Today should be a day of solemn mourning. There are so many dates that we could #changethedate to.

Australia always was and always will be.

#australia day #invasion day #always was always will be

[goldiegaytime]

It is really saddening to me seeing non-Australian viewers respond to Missy and Malakai’s characters on Heart Break High the way that they are.

The questioning of their skin colour and ethnicity is perpetuating really harmful public discourse that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people face every day.

Please, if you’re not Australian and particularly if you only have a US-centric understanding of race and identity, please spend five minutes on google to educate yourself on Indigenous Australia before publicly articulating harmful and frankly racist ideas like questioning Missy and Malakai’s skin colour and whether they have “the right” to call themselves Blak (yes, Blak, google it), or “headcanoning Malakai as Latino”.

I will let Kuku-Yalanji, Waanyi, Gangalidda, Woppaburra, Bundjalung and Biripi man, Steven Oliver, explain why Australians, and in particular Indigenous Australians, are upset at the reactions to these two characters:

#Heart Break High #Heartbreak High #Please please please stop with the gross discourse about Malakai and Missy #tw: racial slurs #tw: racism #always was always will be #malakai mitchell #Missy Beckett

[redgriffun]

Rally for Palestine (and Yemen), Narrm, 14 Jan 2024

#free gaza #solidarity #gaza #Palestine #West bank #Yemen #fromtherivertothesea #ceasefirenow #Israel out of the middle east #Always was always will be

[squishy-bastard]

Invasion Day, Naarm/Melbourne 2024

#melbourne #naarm #invasion day #2024 #australia #land rights #always was always will be

[mmmmmm-queer-shit]

the no vote in todays referendum is horrifying, but unfortunately not unexpected. do better. as australians, do better. as people, do better, as voters, do better. as friends and family and lovers and students and teachers and carers, do better. your ignorance is no excuse to continue the cycle of racism.

#aus pol #australia #vote yes #voice to parliament #voice referendum #aboriginal #always was always will be

[aardvaark]

it’s officially Jan 26th here now, so just a quick note. if you believe today is "Australia Day" rather than Invasion Day & a Day of Mourning, then from the bottom of my heart, please fuck off. i stand with the Indigenous people of so-called Australia. this land always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

#jan 26 #invasion day #always was always will be #auspol #no pride in genocide #tw anti indigenous racism #tw racism

[hasellia]

Eyy, so @raptorbricks tagged me for this like a week ago and I'm finally got around to it! Like what Raptorbricks did I added links to the youtube sources of the soungs, plus I added some links to translations for some of the songs.

“Rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.”

10 songs from my “on repeat” mix on shuffle:

The Bug Collector - Haley Henderickx

Musicawi silt | Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex (You don't need lyrics, just listen to the guitar and saxophone).

The Wisp Sings - Winter Aid

ingerlaliinnaleqaagut - Nanook (Translated Lyrics)

つきをみた (tsukiwomita) - Sohta (想太) | (YT link to an ENG fansub) | (Niconico link here)

Weather - Luck Luster

Kereshmeh; Reng-e Shalakhu (Persia: Ancient era) - Kazem Davoudian and Geoff Knorr | (WARNING PARADOX GAMES OST) (Link to the original Karamesh) (Link to original Reng-‌e Shalakhu)

ᐃᒥᖅᑕᖅ (Imiqtaq) - Riit | (Translated lyrics)

Dhaliwuy Bay - Yirrmal

Moon is Sharp - Grouper

... I swear I listen to more than just non-english songs and milennial Tiktok music, the algorithm just wanted to expose me.

I might reblog this later to give a quick summery of the context of each song and some of my reccomended videos for getting into non-western music.

Now for the Ten I choose to expose their music taste are...

@grapeagata @broccoli-bitching @crocadilly @enchanteddaydreams @ofals @sock-puppet-dinosaur @tootheyes @justgoji @theolminitiative and @ratbonesart.

No actual obligation to join if you don't want to. However, anyone is free to join in if they want, just make sure to tag me!

#tag game #music #Ethiopian jazz punk #Ethiopian #Greenlandic #Japanese #Nunavut #Iranian #ᐃᒥᖅᑕᖅ #つきをみた #初音ミク #Miku #Vocaloid #Blak artist #indigenous australia #aboriginal australia #always was always will be #Nanook #Hayley Henerickx #Getatchew Mekuria #Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex #想太 #Sohta #Luck Luster #Kazem Davoudian #Riit #Yirrmal #Dhaliwuy Bay #Grouper #Moon is Sharp

[thatnerdyqueer]

hey fellow australians. This is your yearly reminder that as fun as barbeques, pool parties, fireworks, and beach days can be, you need to remember that you are barbequeing, partying, and swimming on stolen land.

Always was, always will be.

January 26 is not a day for all Australians.

#personally I think we should celebrate in on a different day #like the anniversary of federation or smth #but some would rather it not exist at all #and we gotta respect that #Australia day #jan 26 #invasion day #australia #australian politics #always was always will be