Indigenous Australian Ashleigh Gardner refuses to play a Twenty20 international match against Pakistan on Australia Day, saying it is a 'day of hurt and a day of mourning' for her people
Australia's national day, which marks the arrival of white settlers to the continent,"was the beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession", Gardner says.
An indigenous Australian member of the Australian national women’s cricket team has condemned a decision to play a Twenty20 international against Pakistan on Australia’s national day. The holiday on January 26 commemorates the arrival in 1788 of the “first fleet” which brought the first white settlers to Australia.
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