The Government has designated Australia National Day on 26 January. Celebrations are common and protests under the motto Abolish Australia Day. Thousands of people, many of them with aboriginal flags, have taken to the streets of Australian cities to fight British colonization. For many entrepreneurs, that day began the era of discrimination and the expulsion of indigenous people from their lands.

On 26 January 1788, the first British prisoners came to Australia and established the first colony. Indigenous entrepreneurs see it as a day of invasion and say they have nothing to celebrate. Since then, sexual abuse, the theft of Aboriginal lands, the destruction of their cultures and the treatment as secondary citizens on their lands for three centuries.

In Melbourne, roads and tramway lines have been closed for more than four hours. One more year, they have faced the monuments representing the Australian colonial past. James Cook paints a red statue of the English colonizer and writes messages that say “the colony falls.” The statue of Queen Victoria in Melbourne has also been painted with red paint, among others.