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Invasion Day rallies and events are planned across Australia for 26 January
calling for Australia Day to be abolished or celebrated on a different date.
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Invasion Day rallies and events are planned across Australia for 26 January
calling for Australia Day to be abolished or celebrated on a different date.
Photograph: James Ross/AAP
Indigenous Australians

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INVASION DAY 2024: A GUIDE TO PROTEST MARCHES AND EVENTS ACROSS AUSTRALIA ON 26
JANUARY

People will be gathering at smoking ceremonies, concerts and protests in
solidarity with First Nations people. Find a rally or event near you

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Rallies, smoking ceremonies and concerts are among dozens of events planned
across the country for 26 January calling for Australia Day to be abolished or
celebrated on a different date, celebrating First Nations survival and
reflecting on reconciliation.

After a failed referendum to give Indigenous Australians a voice to parliament
that left many feeling bruised and rejected, and months of protests calling for
a ceasefire in Gaza and expressing solidarity with dispossessed people
everywhere, the themes of this year’s events take in both Indigenous and
Palestinian dispossession.


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Here is a list of what is planned for each state:


NEW SOUTH WALES

Sunset cultural ceremony
Presented by local elders, the Sunset cultural ceremony on Thursday 25 January
will start from 5pm at Burnum Burnum sanctuary in Woronora, southern Sydney, to
provide “a solemn and respectful way to engage with the profound significance of
this day” for First Nations people.



Vigil: The Future
Also on Thursday, at 8.30pm a vigil at Barangaroo Reserve on Sydney Harbour will
feature a choir of First Nations young people “as they sing of their dreams,
realities and hopes for the future”.

Dawn reflection
The Sydney Opera House will be illuminated with projections of Aboriginal
artwork from sunrise at 5.20am on Friday.

WulgulOra morning ceremony
A reflective ceremony for “inclusion, understanding and reconciliation” will be
held at Barangaroo Reserve from 7.30am.

Eora Invasion Day rally
Meet at 10am at Belmore Park in Haymarket, central Sydney, for a march to
Victoria Park, Camperdown. Alongside a call for abolishing Australia Day, the
rally will call to “end occupation everywhere” and “cut ties with and impose
sanctions on colonial, apartheid Israel until Palestine is free”.

Invasion Day bushcare, Dharawal land
People are invited to “bring gloves and any garden tools” to Gilmore Park, West
Wollongong, to work in the Fairy Creek Catchment corridor from 9am to 11am, in
acknowledgment that “Aboriginal people have cared for this land for over 60,000
years”.

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Bermagui Survival Day
Performances by Gahdu Dreaming band and Mudjingaal Yangamba choir will feature
at Bermagui Survival Day, which starts at 11am on Dickinson Oval.

Yabun festival
This year’s theme for Sydney’s Yabun festival is “Surviving, Guiding, Thriving”
in celebration of “the resilience and strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander communities”. The festival starts at midday and will go to 10pm at
Victoria Park. It will also be streamed on the Yabun festival website.


AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Sovereignty Day rally, Ngunnawal land
Marchers are meeting 9.30am at Garema Place before a rally highlighting “236
years of unfinished business; land rights – restitution – justice – liberation”.


VICTORIA

Dawn service
A 5am dawn service will be held at Kings Domain Resting Place, Linlithgow
Avenue, Melbourne.

Day of Mourning dawn service, North Geelong
A Day of Mourning dawn service will also be held on 62 Morgan Street, North
Geelong, from 5.30am to “mark the survival of ongoing traditions and cultures,
and the strength and resilience of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people”.

Pilk Purriyn Truth Telling, Wadawurrung land
The truth-telling event at Cosy Corner Beach, Torquay, will welcome deep
listening and reflection at sunrise from 5.30am.

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January 26 service, Abbotsford
From 9am at Collingwood Town Hall Reserve, Abbotsford, a service will “honour
the history of pain and suffering endured by Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples as a direct consequence of European invasion and colonisation”.

Change the Date gathering, Hastings
A smoking ceremony and yarning circle followed by morning tea will be held at
Willum Warrain Aboriginal Association, Pound Road, Melbourne, from 9.30am.

Naarm Invasion Day rally
The rally – an “annual reminder of invasion, occupation, genocide and the
ongoing impacts of colonisation that continues to destroy our lives, our lands
and our waters” – will start from 10am at Parliament House, Spring Street, in
Melbourne.

Mount Alexander Survival Day
In Victory Park, Castlemaine, from 10am, a joint Australia Day – Survival Day
event will welcome new Australian citizens, announce winners of the Mount
Alexander shire Australia Day awards and include a Survival Day concert.



Share the Spirit festival
From 11.30am at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, the free community festival
is honouring the survival of First Nations people.

Survival Day ceremony, Portland
A survival day event at noon at Old Playground, Portland foreshore, will offer
food and entertainment.

Our Survival Day, Boonwurrung land
A lineup of local artists, food and market stalls will create “a safe space for
you, your family and friends to be” at the Briars, Mount Martha, in the
Mornington Peninsula, from noon to 7pm. The event’s 2024 theme is “Keep
Surviving”, after 2023 saw “racism at an all-time peak, hate speech normalised
by politicians and media-villainising mob”.

Survival Day celebration, Hamilton
A celebration for Survival Day start at 3pm in the barbecue area of Hamilton
Botanic Gardens.

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NORTHERN TERRITORY

Smoking ceremony, Darwin
At 7.45am a smoking ceremony will be held at the Darwin waterfront lagoon,
featuring storytelling by First Nations performers.

Invasion Day protest, Gulumoerrgin, Larrakia land
Protesters will gather from 8.30am at Darwins Civic Park Square.


QUEENSLAND

Meanjin Survival Day ceremony
A 7.30am ceremony at the waters of the Benarrawa will “celebrate the survival of
the First Peoples”, especially those who “cared for the waters and lands along
the banks of the Brisbane River and Benarrawa (Oxley Creek)”. People will begin
gathering at the bronze canoe, near Simpson’s Playground, from 7.15am.

Meanjin Invasion Day rally
Protesters will meet at Brisbane’s Queens Gardens from 9am before a march to
Musgrave Park. The event calls for people to “show up for Indigenous peoples of
these occupied lands as we collectivise towards liberation, freedom and the end
of all occupation”.



We Have Survived! Gubbi Gubbi Invasion Day rally
On the Sunshine Coast, people will gather at Foundation Square at 9am for a
procession to Cotton Tree Park.

Townsville Survival Day, Bindal and Wulgurukaba land
Dance, poetry and storytelling will commemorate Survival Day from 6am to 3pm at
The Strand, Townsville.


SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Mourning in the Morning
A cleansing smoking ceremony is being held at Adelaide’s Elder Park from 8am,
where attenders will hear from First Nations young people about their
“aspirations in the post-referendum era”.

Survival Day rally
A rally “to celebrate the oldest Living continuing culture on Planet Earth” will
start from 11am at Tarndanyangga (Victoria Square) in Adelaide.


WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Day of Mourning ceremony
Senator Dorinda Cox will “acknowledge the past” in a Day of Mourning ceremony
from 9am at Victoria Gardens Foreshore in Perth.

Boorloo Invasion Day rally
From 12.30pm, protesters will meet at Forrest Chase, Perth, before a march at
1.30pm. “We want Truth and real understanding about the ongoing settler
colonialism in ‘Australia’ that started with the gun and is just as powerful
today with the use of the legal system and institutional structures,” organisers
say. A list of demands the march will call for include: “implement the Bringing
Them Home report,” “protect sacred sites,” and “stop the genocide in Palestine”.

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analysis finds
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Birak Concert
The Birak Concert will celebrate the First Summer, with performances starting at
3pm at the Supreme Court Gardens, Riverside Drive, Perth.

Rubibi Survival Day
An evening concert at the Goolarri Amphitheatre will feature a lineup including
Barkaa, Electric Fields and Fitzroy Xpress.


TASMANIA

Putiya Kanaplila Invasion Day rally
A rally departing from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre in Elizabeth Street,
Nipaluna (Hobart) will march across lutruwita from 11.15am in a campaign to
change to date.

Limilinaturi March and rally
Another march will take place from 11.30am, starting at the Tulaminikali Health
Service in Devonport, before a rally in Market Square at 12.

Cygnet Invasion/Survival Day rally
From 9.30am at Burton’s Reserve, Cygnet, people will gather to rally.

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