Australia Day is on January 26, marking the arrival of the First Fleet of ships in Sydney’s Port Jackson – from England in 1888, to establish a penal colony.
However, for many Indigenous Australians it marks the start of a process of colonization that devastated Indigenous cultural and economic society.
NITV is marking this with a day of special programming, starting with an uninterrupted, dawn program called Sunrise.
Sunrise will feature a traditional smoking ceremony, oral histories, cultural and contemporary performances, as well as political discussion.
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