Invasion Day 2020
Truth. Treaty. Justice.
What is Invasion Day?
On January 26, 1788 the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson, and Arthur Phillip raised the Union Jack on the land of the Eora nation. This was an invasion that had catastrophic and tragic consequences for all the peoples and nations who had lived here for tens of thousands of years, and for their descendants.
What followed was brutal frontier violence, massacres, the forced removal of children from their families, indentured and slave labour and violent attempts to wipe out First Nations language and culture.
This is not a day to celebrate. By continuing to celebrate Australia on January 26 we deny the truth about our shared history.
Sign the petition
As Australians, we all want a day on which we can come together as a community. January 26 is not that day.
It’s time to acknowledge the truth about our shared history, listen to First Nations people when they tell this truth and be part of addressing the contemporary consequences of invasion and the inter-generational trauma, the resulting dispossession and marginalisation that is part of our unfinished business.
Find an event
First Nations peoples have been protesting and boycotting the many different forms Australia Day has taken for over a century.
By refusing to participate in a day that marks dispossession and violence we acknowledge the truth about our shared history and create a movement for change. That’s why the Greens are urging all Australians to attend Invasion Day protests in their region.
- Adelaide
- Alice Springs
- Armidale
- Ballarat
- Belgrave
- Bermagui
- Brisbane
- Brunswick
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Devonport
- Fremantle
- Hobart
- Melbourne
- Melbourne
- Newcastle
- Penrith
- Perth
- Sydney
- Sydney
- Townsville
Tandanya “Survival Day” and concert
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
253 Grenfell Street, Adelaide
January 26, 2020
1pm – 6pm
(concert starts at 6pm)
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Invasion Day 2020 Mparntwe (Alice Springs)
Hospital Lawns
Stuart Terrace, Alice Springs
January 26, 2020
10am – 12pm
Armidale Survival Day 2020
Aboriginal Community Garden
4 Mossman Street, Armidale
January 26, 2020
From 10am
Anaiwan Language Revival Program
Survival Day Dawn Ceremony
View Point, Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
Opposite Lake View Hotel
January 26, 2020
5:30am – 6:30am
Ballarat Koorie Engagement Action Group – KEAG and Intercultural Ambassador Program City of Ballarat
Belgrave Survival Day
Borthwick Park
Benson Street, Belgrave
January 26, 2020
12pm – 4:30pm
Burrinja
Bermagui Survival Day 2020
Dickinson Oval, Bermagui
January 26, 2020
1pm – 5pm
Bermagui Survival Day
Meanjin (Brisbane) Invasion Day 2020
Queens Gardens
144 George St, Brisbane
January 26, 2020
10am – 1pm
WAR – Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance
Canberra Survival Day March 2020
Veterans Park, Canberra
January 26, 2020
11am – 12:30pm
United Ngunnawal Youth Council
Darwin Invasion Day
Civic Park, Darwin City
January 26, 2020
11:30am – 2:30pm
Community Solidarity in Action (NT)
Devonport Invasion Day Rally
Devonport Bluff, Devonport
January 26, 2020
From 11:45am
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
One Day in Fremantle
Esplanade, Fremantle
Kidogo Arthouse Precinct and Bathers Beach
January 25, 2020
8am – 8pm
City of Fremantle
Invasion Day Rally
198 Elizabeth Street to Parliament House Lawns, Hobart
January 26, 2020
11am onwards
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
Invasion Day Dawn Service
Kings Domain Resting Place
Alexandra Ave, Melbourne
January 26, 2020
5:30am – 6:30am
Lidia Thorpe
Melbourne Invasion Day 2020
Parliament of Victoria
Spring St, East Melbourne
January 26, 2020
11am – 2pm
WAR – Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance
Invasion Day Rally Newcastle 2020
Civic Park, Newcastle
January 26, 2020
11am – 1pm
Invasion Day 2020
Perth Invasion Day 2020
Forrest Place
Wellington Street, Perth
January 26, 2020
From 12:30pm
First Nations Organiser
Invasion Day 2020 Warrang (Sydney)
Hyde Park South, Sydney
Corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool Street
January 26, 2020
11am – 1pm
FIRE – Fighting in Resistance Equally
Yabun Festival
Victoria Park
City road, Sydney
January 26, 2020
11am – 7pm
Yabun Festival and Koori Radio 93.7FM
Survival Day 2020
Perfume Gardens Park
Corner of Stokes Street and Walker Street, Townsville
January 26, 2020
11am – 4pm
Big Eye Theatre
Hosting an Invasion Day event? Let us know.
Authorised by R Siewert The Australian Greens, Parliament House Canberra, ACT 2600.
Banner artwork by Wiradjuri, Ngiyampaa artist Charlotte Allingham.
The Australian Greens acknowledge that First Nations peoples are the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land we call Australia. We know this land was stolen and that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
