January 26 was made the national 'Australia Day' public holiday in 1994.
It was on this same date in 1788, that the First Fleet established a convict settlement at Sydney Cove, marking the beginning of European Colonisation of Australia.
And it's a day of great pain and mourning for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The decades of colonial violence, dispossession and trauma inflicted on First Nations people since this date have led many to call for Australia's national day of celebration to be changed.
