Australian Flag and Indigenous Social Justice Association

Town Hall: After stopping for speeches at Town Hall, and the unsuccessful burning of an Australian flag, the march followed the original route of the 1938 'Day of Mourning' protest to Australian Hall, according to Nine News Australia. It the first time since 1938 indigenous Australians have gathered at the Elizabeth St hall on January 26. Chanting "always was, always will be Aboriginal land", protesters clad in Indigenous colours marched from The Block in Redfern, where speeches and dances were performed and poems recited, to the CBD on Tuesday morning. Organiser Ken Canning, from the Indigenous Social Justice Association, said indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded. He said indigenous communities need to be provided with autonomy and self-governance, separate from the Australian parliament."We need full and total control of our own destiny," he said. January 26, he said, was a day of invasion to indigenous Australians."This is the day war was declared by the British on all Aboriginal nations, all tribes," Mr Canning told AAP."I don't mind them having Australia Day but they can have it on January 1."Because it is the day of what I call 'the killing times'."Mr Canning said January 26 was also a day in which Indigenous Australians celebrated their warrior ancestors. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.