We are definitely history ignorant.  This certainly makes it clear 
THE "FIRST" AUSTRALIA DAY:  I was taught this at primary school.
26 January, 1949– The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements.
This information was authored by Peter Lee - it should again be taught to all Australians.
'Below is the correct reason Australia Day is celebrated on 26 January.   
Here are the Facts about Australia Day but don’t expect the media to educate you with these facts as it’s not part of their agenda.
1. Australia Day does not celebrate the arrival of the first fleet or the invasion of anything.
2. Captain Cook did not arrive in Australia on the 26th January.   The landing of Captain Cook in Sydney happened on the 28thApril 1770 – not on 26th January.
3. The first fleet arrived in Botany Bay on 18th January.
The 26th was chosen as Australia Day for a very different and important reason.
The 26th of January is the day Australians received their independence from British Rule.
However, Captain Cook’s landing was included in Australia Day bi-centenary celebrations of 1988 when Sydney-siders decided Captain Cook’s landing should become the focus of the Australia Day commemoration.
Sadly, the importance of this date for all Australians has begun to fade and now, a generation later, it’s all but lost.
The media as usual is happy to twist the truth for the sake of controversy.
Captain Cook didn’t land on the 26th January, so changing the date of any celebration of Captain Cook’s landing would not have any impact on Australia Day, but maybe it would clear the way for the truth about Australia Day.
Australians of today abhor what was done under British governance to the Aborigines, the Irish and many other cultures around the world.  So, after the horrors of WW11, we decided to try and fix it.  We became our own
On 26th January 1949, the Australian nationality came into existence when the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 was enacted.
That was the day we were first called Australians and allowed to travel with passports as Australians and NOT British subjects.
In 1949 therefore, we all became Australian citizens under the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948.
Before that special date, all people living in Australia, including  Aborigines, were called ‘British Subjects’ and forced to travel on British passports and fight in British wars.
This is why we celebrate Australia Day on the 26th January. 
This was the day Australians became free to make our own decisions about which wars we would fight and how our citizens would be treated.
It was the day we were all declared Australians.

'In early colonial times, the 26th was also called 'First Landing Day' or 'Foundation Day' by some, and would be celebrated by European immigrants (particularly ex-convicts) by holding anniversary dinners. Some would begin their festivities the night of the 25th, with records existing of ex-convicts participating in "drinking and merriment" to  celebrate their new home from as early as 1808. All Australia celebrated the 26th by 1935'._ SBS culture.

The 1949 Act of Citizenship chose 26th January to remember the glories of chain-gangs, flogging and stone-cutting. And tourist holidays in Norfolk Island, Port Arthur or fun times with Capt Logan the triangles man of Brisbane.

George invited Arthur Phillip to have George's land and Arthur took it from 135 degrees West, the eastern chunk of Northern Territory. So 1/2 Oz belongs to Sydney as does the South Pacific Ocean and islands eastward.  Chinese Solomon Islands seems to be outside, which was sloppy piracy by James Cook. If China takes Xi's Sydney as well then it's all back together.

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 14^th, 2022 at 4:53pm:


No incorrect .... Cook did that on Possession Island in 1770.

Phillip proclaimed the colony.

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 14^th, 2022 at 6:10pm:


My comment was in regard to what you said that I highlighted.

Capt. Cook took possession proclaiming British sovereignty over the Eastern seaboard of the continent on Possession Island in 1770.

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Gnads wrote on Sep 14^th, 2022 at 6:08pm:

Maybe he didn't and just saying 'it's mine' is ridiculous anyway. Convicts got 14 years for that sort of stuff.

'Seeking a high vantage point, Cook along with three others including Joseph Banks, climbed a steep hill on a nearby island.  From the top the viewed a navigable "a passage into the Indian Seas".  He signalled the good news down to the men on the ship, who cheered loudly.'
'The Admiralty's instructions did not authorized Cook to annex New Holland and therefore it is unlikely that any possession ceremony occurred that August.  Importantly, Joseph Banks, who was standing beside Cook, does not mention any such episode or announcement in his journal.'

22 Aug 1770. 'Banks wrote :'We soon came abreast, from whence we concluded we might have a much better view than from our mast head, so the anchor was dropd and we prepared ourselves to go ashore to examine whether the place we stood into was a bay or a passage; for as we sailed right before the trade wind we might find difficulty in getting out should it prove to be the former. . The hill we were upon was by much the most barren we had been upon; it however gave us the satisfaction of seeing a straight, at least as far as we could see, without any obstruction. In the Even a strong tide made us almost certain'.

So George III was telling fibs when he said he owned it. But he was nuts so it's all OK.