Australia day at Kingston Beach
Filed under: Beaches, Events, Kingston, Blackmans Bay, The Channel and The Huon
Today is Australia day which commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in Australia in 1788 and is a holiday in all states and territories of Australia. Around the country like here at Kingston Beach there were celebrations to mark the occassion.
The day is controversal with Indigenous Australians who see the date as marking the destruction of their culture and there are annual protests refering to the day as “Invasion Day” and have been campaigning to have the date moved to the day the Government officially apologised for past actions.
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3 Comments on Australia day at Kingston Beach
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~tanty~ on
Tue, 27th Jan 2009 12:03 am
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Will Allen on
Tue, 27th Jan 2009 6:59 am
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Greg on
Tue, 27th Jan 2009 10:56 pm
I can feel the warm weather by seeing the photo. Oh, I wish I was there right now! It’s too cold here.
It was a truely great day lot of friends and people…… And lots of girls in bathers………….
Tanty – we are having a burst of summer at long last and its beautiful beach weather here now.
Will – i couldn’t stay long there so i missed most of the entertainment 
