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The Day of Mourning was a protest held by Aboriginal Australians on 26 January 1938, the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet and the British colonisation of Australia. It was held to draw attention to the poor treatment of Aboriginal people and entrenched racial discrimination.
The Australian Hall is a heritage-listed community building located at 150–152 Elizabeth Street, in the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia.. It was the site of the Day of Mourning protests by Aboriginal Australians on 26 January 19
Patten was born on 26 March 1905 in Moama, New South Wales. He was the son of Christina Mary (née Middleton) and John James Patten. [2] Patten was raised on the Cummeragunja Reserve, an Aboriginal reserve in New South Wales. He was educated at public schools in Tumbarumba and West Wyalong, and attended high school at West Wyalong.
STORY: With the day declared a national holiday, a memorial ceremony attended by 600 dignitaries was held at Parliament House in Canberra for Queen Elizabeth, who died on Sept. 8 after 70 years on ...
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Mourning period declared from March 18 until March 26, the burial day. [225] Kenya: 7 [226] Burundi [227] Mozambique: 5 Mozambique's Council of Ministers ordered a five-day national mourning period from March 20–25, during which time the national flag also flew at half-mast. [227] Democratic Republic of the Congo: 3 [228] South Sudan [229 ...
An increasing number of non-Indigenous Australians now find it difficult to celebrate Australia Day, in the knowledge that many of their Indigenous fellow citizens treat it as a day of mourning.
A similar but rarely-used concept exists at the European Union-level and Arab League-level and are called a European Day of Mourning and Arab League Day of Mourning. The European Commission first introduced the concept on 12 September 2001, when a day of mourning was declared across EU member states for the victims of the terrorist attacks in ...