Australia Day should only be 26th January
Cook reached the southern coast of New South Wales in 1770 and sailed north, charting Australia’s eastern coastline and claiming the land for Great Britain on 22nd August 1770.
After a voyage of three months the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay on 24 January 1788. Here the native Aboriginal people, who had lived in isolation for 40,000 years, met the British in an uneasy stand off at what is now known as Frenchmans Beach at La Perouse.
Therefore if these activists want to have an invasion day it should be 22 August 1770, when Cook claimed this land in the name of Great Britain. Not on the day the flag was put up calling this land Australia.
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