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SURVIVAL DAY activities are scheduled for many locations around Australia

See our Coming Events page for some of the Survival Day activities in the Greater Brisbane area.

For events around Australia, see the ANTAR National list HERE.

As ANTAR National states:

“For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 26 January is a reminder of the pain and suffering of their ancestors, the theft of their land, the enormous loss of life in the Frontier Wars and the intergenerational trauma that comes with that history.

Celebrating on this day ignores the historical atrocities committed against First Nations Peoples and obscures the many uncomfortable truths of our shared history. But it also overlooks the many ways in which colonisation is ongoing – the grave injustices of Black deaths in custody, ever-growing gaps in health outcomes and life expectancy, youth justice statistics, destruction of sacred sites and contemporary child removal that our systems and structures continue to permit and in some cases promote.

In recent years, awareness around the pain of 26 January is building. Many local councils—including City of Melbourne, Geelong, Yarra, Moreland, Darebin, City of Sydney and Sydney’s Inner West, Launceston and Flinders Island in Tasmania as well as Fremantle, WA – have cancelled and/or replaced their 26 January events, or voiced formal support for changing the date. These changes are welcomed.”

For more go to: Rethinking January 26

Truth-telling and healing Inquiry: First Report 25 October 2024 is now available

Click here to open the report

Petition from Queensland Citizens in Support of the Path to Treaty Act 2023
FNA is a Magandjin (Brisbane city) based group of ordinary people, First Nations (Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander) peoples, and non-Indigenous peoples, who formed at the time of the 2023 Referendum in Brisbane.For information and to sign the petition click: https://bit.ly/QldTreatyPetition