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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3191142, member: 8215"] I have mixed feelings on this. Renaming Australia Day "Invasion Day" is grossly ignoring history around the world. Why do countries (outside of Island countries like Aus & NZ) exist? Because someone declared ownership of it, others invaded and took it for themselves, annexed others, if we want to apologise for anyone forcibly taking land off others, we need to disband all country borders and start from scratch. Which is silly. But on the other hand, while there are certainly instances in the past of the victorious party slaughtering and even enslaving the losing party, Indigenous Australians were genuinely treated as sub-human, as savage animals. I have no idea how that would feel, but I can understand why that would be a hurt that would imbedded in their culture. I have no answer for how to make up for that. [/QUOTE]

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