01/26/2026
January 26th marks 238 years of colonisation, dispossession, and systems designed to disappear us.
What is there to celebrate?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people disappear at three times the rate of non-Indigenous Australians. Families are left to fight alone. Police dismiss cases. Media ignores us. Institutions fail us.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬. 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥.
We don’t have government funding. We don’t have institutional backing. We have lived experience, expertise, and absolute commitment.
To our allies: This is how you show up. Not with words. With action.
Grassroots organisations like ours don’t survive on good intentions. We survive on community support. Fund the work that institutions refuse to do. Fund First Nations-led justice.
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