As the so-called change-the-date debate continues around the country, Dunghutti rights activist Paul Silva is floating another idea: abolish Australia Day altogether.
abc.net.au/news/voice-and-plan-to-abolish-australia-day-in-spotlight-at-rallies/101886432As the so-called change-the-date debate continues around the country, Dunghutti rights activist Paul Silva is floating another idea."We need to abolish Australia Day all together, it should never be celebrated," he said.
This year, debate about the date of Australia Day has a new context: plans for a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says First Nations people asked for this official recognition in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and that it is not Labor's voice, or a symbolic gesture.
Mr Silva is the nephew of David Dungay Jnr, who died in Sydney's Long Bay jail in 2015 while he was held down by guards and sedated.For more than seven years, he has organised Invasion Day rallies in Sydney."It's a day we wake up and feel so sad, it really affects us. And it does have a ripple effect throughout Aboriginal communities," he said.
For Birri Gubba and Gangulu woman Teila Watson, you would be hard pressed to find anyone celebrating the "genocide of their own people".of colonialism for years. "There are Indigenous people in the political system, as politicians, who use colonial views against our people and culture."Why do we need a voice, a special government body to advocate for our people?"
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