Invasion Day, not Australia Day: Resisting a violent myth ...Kuwait

In my box of childhood memorabilia is a 1988 ‘Bicentennial Memento for School Students’. I was nine years old when the government issued this heritage medallion to Australian students. My family and I were visiting my father’s family in Kuwait during the Bicentennial celebrations. We watched the news of the massive Sydney protest held on Australia Day. It didn’t make sense to me. I was too young then to realise I had a reference point to understand dispossession and land theft. Indeed, we were in Kuwait because my Palestinian family was denied the right to live on their land in Palestine. If you had asked me then what I learned at school about Australia’s ‘founding’ his

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