Some call it Invasion Day, and they have every right to do so, just as everybody has the right to hold and express a particular line of thought.
However, the term Invasion Day seems to be something of a political misnomer.
Liberation Day is a much better term, as it accurately describes the event and that which followed.
On that Day in 1770, 10 years after the beginning of the industrial revolution in England, the British stepped forth upon a barren land where even the wheel and the arch had not been discovered; a land devoid of any evidence of civilised advancement; a barren land indeed.
Stepping upon that economically vacant land, is it any wonder that they recognised its potential, seized the initiative, hoisted the Union Flag, and began the business of hard work and productive activity?
And in doing so, it seems they simply exercised a moral duty by filling the gap and doing that which had not been done: they began to build a nation with a functioning economy for the mutual benefit of that new nation and the trading economies of the world.
And, so it was, on that day, that the land of Australia began to be liberated from the bondage 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, a world of invention, innovation, and enterprise: a better world built upon the concept of improving one's person, and one's country, through the means of individual effort and endeavour.
No doubt some will disagree, and of course, we cannot deny them that right.
