Australia: controversy over the celebration of the national day

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Rather than partying, some, for “Australia Day”, choose to demonstrate.

Others, to pay homage to the aboriginal victims of colonization.

© AP / Rick Rycroft

By: Grégory Plesse

3 min

In Australia, the national holiday celebrates the arrival of Captain James Cook and the first English settlers on January 26, 1788 in this country that Europeans then called New Holland.

This date poses a problem, in particular for the aboriginal community, for whom it awakens old sufferings.

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