Original toot date: 02 March, 2023

Be sure to keep an eye out for your opportunity to #HaveYourSay on this incredibly important issue!

https://www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/mr/january_26_consultation

#alwayswasalwayswillbe #alwayswasalwayswillbeaboriginalland #IndigenousRights #indigenous #aboriginal #aboriginalrights #blak #blaklivesmatter #survivalday #invasionday

Original toot date: 29 January, 2023

On January 26, I had the opportunity to speak with Mayor of Moonee Valley Council Pierce Tyson, Cr. Rose Iser and Moonee Valley City Council CEO Helen Sui, about Indigenous healing and how we can be more sensitive to our First Nations people on January 26.
We also discussed a local project I have been wanting and proposing for several years and Mayor Tyson was gracious enough to invite me to send him my proposal, in the hope that he may be able to advocate for it on my behalf (watch this space). Both Cr. Iser and Ms. Sui were encouraged by my enthusiasm to create local change for indigenous peoples, and were incredibly supportive and enthusiastic.
I also had an opportunity to speak with Niddrie Greens candidate Declan McGinness, where we discussed how collaboration not politics, will see the most positive changes for our communities come to fruition.
I thank all of these wonderful people for their warm hospitality and genuine care in what I had to say.

#MooneeValley #communitymatters #communityengagement #indigenousrights #alwayswasalwayswillbe #AboriginalLivesMatter #January26 #invasionday #DayOfMourning #survivalday #AustraliaDay

Original toot date: 24 January, 2023

I write to you from Wurundjeri Country in Naarm. I stand with our First Nations People. I support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. I support changing the date of Australia Day. I acknowledge this land was stolen and it's sovereignty never ceded.
Will you join me in being a voice for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people?

https://youtu.be/r0Ul8WB3kvA

#alwayswasalwayswillbe #alwayswasalwayswillbeaboriginalland #aboriginalaustralia #aboriginal #aboriginalland #indigenous #IndigenousLivesMatter #IndigenousPeoples #AboriginalLivesMatter #indigenousland #firstnations #firstnationsaustralia #australiaday #invasionday #SurvivalDay #changethedate

Be sure to keep an eye out for your opportunity to #HaveYourSay on this incredibly important issue!

https://www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/mr/january_26_consultation

#alwayswasalwayswillbe #alwayswasalwayswillbeaboriginalland #IndigenousRights #indigenous #aboriginal #aboriginalrights #blak #blaklivesmatter #survivalday #invasionday

On January 26, I had the opportunity to speak with Mayor of Moonee Valley Council Pierce Tyson, Cr. Rose Iser and Moonee Valley City Council CEO Helen Sui, about Indigenous healing and how we can be more sensitive to our First Nations people on January 26.
We also discussed a local project I have been wanting and proposing for several years and Mayor Tyson was gracious enough to invite me to send him my proposal, in the hope that he may be able to advocate for it on my behalf (watch this space). Both Cr. Iser and Ms. Sui were encouraged by my enthusiasm to create local change for indigenous peoples, and were incredibly supportive and enthusiastic.
I also had an opportunity to speak with Niddrie Greens candidate Declan McGinness, where we discussed how collaboration not politics, will see the most positive changes for our communities come to fruition.
I thank all of these wonderful people for their warm hospitality and genuine care in what I had to say.

#MooneeValley #communitymatters #communityengagement #indigenousrights #alwayswasalwayswillbe #AboriginalLivesMatter #January26 #invasionday #DayOfMourning #survivalday #AustraliaDay

We haven't had an Irish number one from a First Nation act yet. The Kid Laroi, of Gamilaraay family background, reached no. 2 with Justin Bieber in 2021 with this #AustraliaDay #SurvivalDay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJczUoc26U

An amazing & deeply moving #InvasionDay spent exploring country with Wayne Atkinson, elder of the Yorta Yorta people and aboriginal activist. Such beautiful landscapes with tragic histories, intimately connected with Wayne’s own ancestors and the ongoing struggle for #indigenous land rights. An absolute privilege to spend the day hearing his stories and perspectives — and the many connections with Irish history.

#IrishStudies
#Victoria
#Australia
#SurvivalDay

#invasionday #survivalday

#yothuyindi #treaty #music #LoveMusicHateFascism #invasionday #survivalday #GoodNightWhitePride #antiracist #antifascist #blacklivesmatter #humanrights

https://youtu.be/Jf-jHCdafZY

@harrym
Shared your post to fb for #SurvivalDay, or as I like to call it, "which of my friends are racist day?"

#InvasionDay
#SurvivalDay
Always was, always will be 👣👣👣

One day we will look back and ask how did we let this happen.
#SurvivalDay #InvasionDay

Being away on #invasionday #survivalday really makes it clear where the work needs to be done to bring all our people on Country along into a better future together.

On this Invasion Day I implore you to not read the comments. 😢 #changethedate #InvasionDay #survivalday

Can’t get a good photo because everyone is hiding in the shade but still #InvasionDay #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #SurvivalDay

Right now, the RAAF has planes flying in formation over the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
It's appropriate that the armed forces are putting on a display today on Australia Day. Since white people settled here, we've been engaged in a genocidal war against Indigenous people. That war has never been officially declared over.
It's time for truth-telling.
It's time for our government to acknowledge the harm of colonialism.
It's time for a treaty.

#AustraliaDay #InvasionDay #Treaty #TreatyNow #SurvivalDay #AusPol #Melbourne #Naarm

Large crowd clapping and stamping, coming together - nipaluna/Hobart #invasionday #survivalday #changethedate

There are some countries that have managed to move forward from the horrors of their colonial past. #Australia is not one of them. The attempted obliteration of a 60,000+ year old rich culture by a young, bigoted and ignorant one is still held in living memory, and still occurring. Not sure if I will write a song for this #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay #SurvivalDay - Will share my attempt at learning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_a_A0M1tK4

Thank you to everyone using content warnings today. It's a difficult day for many, especially First Peoples, so putting your articles and personal opinions of the day behind a CW is caring for this online community.
#DayOfMourning
#SurvivalDay

#AustraliaDay #SurvivalDay

I'm so disappointed in how the celebrations are progressing. We need a day to bring us together as a nation but the refusal of some to acknowledge indigenous pain, the genocides, the ongoing denigration of peoples, on this day shames this country. Change the date.

#ChangeTheDate