Some call it Invasion Day, and they have every right to do so, just as everybody else has the right to express themselves according to their particular line of reasoning.
However, the term Invasion Day seems to be something of a political misnomer.
Liberation Day is much better, as it accurately describes the event and that which followed.
It was the day when the land began to be liberated from the bond of economic inactivity and put to work; it was the day when Australia began to take its place in the world of commerce and industry.
On that day, in 1770, 10 years after the beginning of the industrial revolution in England, the British stepped upon a desolate continent where even the arch and the wheel had not been discovered; a barren land indeed.
Is it any wonder then that they planted the Union Flag in the ground and got to work!
It seems they exercised a moral duty by beginning to build a nation for the benefit of the peoples' of the world.
No doubt some will disagree and, of course, we cannot deny them that right.
