‘We need to stop the lying,” Prof Marcia Langton, a Yiman and Bidjara woman, said last Thursday, as tens of thousands of people attended protest rallies in cities across the country, amid a rising political and social reckoning with the country’s colonial history. “The biggest lie, of course, is Australia Day.”
The day – 26 January – commemorates the landing of the first British fleet of convicts at Sydney Cove
