How can you mark January 26 respectfully?

Laura Thompson wears a T-shirt with 'not a date to celebrate' written across it.

Gunditjmara woman Laura Thompson says the first step in allyship is letting people know where you stand. Source: SBS News/Michael Holmes

January the 26th marks the arrival of the First Fleet on Australian shores, the date chosen as it remembers Sir Arthur Phillip's claiming of Sydney Cove in the name of King George. The date has come to have different meanings for many Australians in the centuries since, but for First Nations communities it is a day of mourning. So how can you mark the day respectfully?



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