It also marks significant dates in the history of Indigenous Australians: the 1967 referendum and the 1992 Mabo decision.
This year's theme ‘Don’t Keep History A Mystery’ invites everyone to learn more about the Australian story.
For 60,000 years, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have called Australia home.
When Captain James Cook first landed at Botany Bay in 1770, he declared the land he saw 'terra nullius', meaning 'no one's land'.
This set the foundation of European settlement based on British law.
What was regarded as "colonisation" from the British perspective was often seen as "invasion" by the First Peoples of Australia.
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