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Jesinta Campbell issues most scathing Australia Day message EVER: Buddy Franklin's model wife slams 'colonisation' in brutal spray... as image of WAG celebrating the holiday in Aussie flag bikini resurfaces

Jesinta Campbell has shared a blistering post condemning Australia Day as a celebration of 'colonisation'.

Australia Day, observed each year on January 26, marks the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 when the first governor of the British colony of New South Wales, Arthur Philip, hoisted the Union Jack at Sydney Cove. In January 2022, Jesinta posted on Instagram that the holiday should not be a 'day of celebration', and that it is 'a date that marked the beginning of the genocide and massacres of the Indigenous population, the confiscation of their ancestral lands and banning of their culture While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hasn't explicitly mentioned any plans to change the date, a rising number of councils and state governments are choosing to cancel traditional Australia Day activities, including citizenship ceremonies.

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