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January 26: Australia Day or Invasion Day?

Article
Georgia McAlpine
09/12/2018
15 minutes to read

In recent years, January 26th has been the date to celebrate Australia as a nation. But looking back on history, and its meaning for Indigenous Australians as the date of colonial invasion, there is a growing movement to abolish or move the day.

Pauline Hanson, a good ol’ Aussie 


Article
Bin Chen
15/12/2017
8 minutes to read

Australia has seen Hanson call Islam a disease and belittle Asians for not assimilating and forming ghettos instead. In this essay, Bin Chen looks into the xenophobic discourse Hanson used on ethnic minorities in Australia.