Melbourne, Australia (APP) – Australians celebrated and protested nationwide on Sunday. Australia’s day Outside the federal elections, local rights have been focused on political differences.
Australia’s day on January 26, 1788 marks the establishment of a British colony in Sydney Kovo, which resulted in the British claiming to be the entire country without any agreement with its locals.
Local rights activists call “attack day” January 26, and protest rallies have been held in major cities. Many people say that Australia’s national day should not be remembered for such a divisive event.
Australia Day is usually a normal holiday and since it took place on Sunday this year, a holiday was announced on Monday.
Recognizing the inconvenience that Australia Day causes many local Australian residents, the most backward ethnic group that is 4% of the population, many businesses “January Long Week &” instead of “Australia Day Long Week End” Refer to.
Australia’s day has been the date in recent decades that immigrants became citizens of Australia at public events. But several local government councils have chosen to hold citizenship celebrations on various dates due to the dispute.
Prime minister Anthony Albanz The Center Left Labor Party government has tried to adjust different views about Australia Day since winning the elections in 2022.
The government decided to allow government employees to work on Australia Day in 2023 and take another day leave instead, changing the former conservative government’s order not to work on January 26 It will come when it comes to the week.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has said that if his party wins the elections by May 17, all councils will need to hold citizenship celebrations on January 26.
“If the Prime Minister does not have the power of leadership that the mayors and others who do not want to celebrate Australia Day, then our country is in trouble more than we have felt before,” Dutton said two weeks ago It was
Dutton has accused Albanis of “contradicting” its support for Australia Day to please the minor. Greens Party.
The Greens Party opposes the January 26 celebrations. Many observers, including Dutton, are expected to lose their parliamentary majority in the next election, and may need the support of Greens Legislatures to form a minority government.
Albani has accused Dutton of rejecting the invitation to attend the Australian Day celebrations in the national capital of Canberra.
Instead, Dutton attended the citizenship ceremony in his hometown of Brisbane.
“Both sides of Parliament should attend the National Day of Australia. They should be bilateral,” Albani told reporters on Sunday.
“If you want to be a national leader, why don’t you attend national events?” Albani asked.
Australian National University historian Frank Bongerno said the two leaders are using Australia Day for their political gain.
“These figures will insist that they want it to be a unity day, but they will always behave in a way that promotes divisions around the day. Really, cultural wars work like this. , “Bongarno said.
The day began in Sydney with the sales of the Sydney Opera House in the morning with the art of local artist James P. Simon.
In Melbourne, local activist Gary Fuley told thousands of protesters who gathered at the footsteps of the state legislature that the biggest obstacle to the country’s better future was “Anglo-Australian racism created by fear and ignorance.”
“We need to gently inform people who are not here today about the true nature of Australian history and why we gather here every year,” Foley told the mob. –
Palestinian activists joined Anti -Australian protesters in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia’s largest cities.
Palestinian woman Nora Mansoor told a mob of Melbourne that local Australian and Palestinians are in a state of plight.
“We were never to survive … but the fact is that we are here after 200 years, now demanding an agreement, demanding a return of land, demanding an independent Palestine a miracle Yes, “he said.
Dutton has accused Albanis of dividing Australia on an ethnic basis by a referendum on local rights in 2023.
Australian residents voted against the proposal, which included a local body, known as a local organization. Intonation Addressing Parliament on local issues.
Dutton has also accused Albani’s government of focusing on local rights rather than a life crisis facing many Australians due to inflation and high interest rates.
