Australia Day 2025

Australia Day, 26 January, is the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet convict ships from Great Britain, and the raising of the Union Jack by its commander Captain Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, in 1788.

This was the beginning of the British colonisation of Australia and the dispossession of country of the original inhabitants who had been here for at least 65,000 years.
We take no part of any celebration of this day in solidarity with our indigenous population.