Unfinished Business: Invasion Day 2024 in Photos

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Standing at the top of Broadway beside Victoria, or Isabel Coe, Park and looking back toward Central, the Invasion Day march rolled all the way up the main western thoroughfare that leads into the city centre, and this crowd, that only gets bigger each year, was raising issues still pending.

“There is unfinished business. This is about land rights, restitution, justice and liberation,” Gomeroi activist Gwenda Stanley made clear. She and a number of others were providing strong representation on Gadigal on Friday, from the 42-year-strong Aboriginal Tent Embassy.

Despite the overwhelming temperatures, there was a massive turnout conveying its own heat to those in Sydney, to those politicking in Canberra and to the wider global community that the referendum debacle has left land rights, sovereignty, treaty and reparations unaddressed.

“Twenty twenty-four is a very peculiar year for our mob, we have just come through a referendum process, which sought to recognise our people in the ailing constitution,” said social justice activist and writer Lynda-June Coe. “I belong to Wiradjuri. I have my own constitution.”

Sydney Criminal Lawyers was on the ground at the Invasion Day rally in Belmore Park on 26 January, with tens of thousands of others.

Gomeroi woman Gwenda Stanley continues to keep unfinished business on the agenda
Gomeroi woman Gwenda Stanley continues to keep unfinished business on the agenda
Dunghutti activist Paul Silva said it’s not the date, it’s the celebration of genocide that needs to be ditched
Dunghutti activist Paul Silva said it’s not the date, it’s the celebration of genocide that needs to be ditched
Bundjalung Widubul-Wiabul human rights lawyer Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts told of the key role the targeting of children plays in genocide whether that be via removal or murder
Bundjalung Widubul-Wiabul human rights lawyer Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts told of the key role the targeting of children plays in genocide whether that be via removal or murder
Wangan and Jagalingou land defender Adrian Burragubba has maintained a decade-long campaign against billionaire Gautam Adani that continues to succeed  
Wangan and Jagalingou land defender Adrian Burragubba has maintained a decade-long campaign against billionaire Gautam Adani that continues to succeed  
Menang woman and National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project (NSPTRP) director Megan Krakouer called out the stark disparities regarding people taking their own lives: a legacy of colonisation
Menang woman and National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project (NSPTRP) director Megan Krakouer called out the stark disparities regarding people taking their own lives: a legacy of colonisation
Gumbaynggirr, Bundjalung, Dunghutti wordsmith Lizzy Jarrett said that “the beautiful Gadigal lands” all were standing on are “ground zero of Australia’s crime scene”
Gumbaynggirr, Bundjalung, Dunghutti wordsmith Lizzy Jarrett said that “the beautiful Gadigal lands” all were standing on are “ground zero of Australia’s crime scene”
Eddie Murray couldn’t have hung himself in June 1981. But they said he did. An exhumed body in 1997 told of a broken sternum. Still no justice though
Eddie Murray couldn’t have hung himself in June 1981. But they said he did. An exhumed body in 1997 told of a broken sternum. Still no justice though

Aboriginal Tent Embassy caretaker Nioka Coe, daughter of legendary Black Power agitators Billy Craigie and Isabel Coe, spoke of the ongoing clans of resistance of this Country
Aboriginal Tent Embassy caretaker Nioka Coe, daughter of legendary Black Power agitators Billy Craigie and Isabel Coe, spoke of the ongoing clans of resistance of this Country

From Gadigal to Gaza, always was always will be
From Gadigal to Gaza, always was always will be
Dobby, L-Fresh The Lion, Gwenda Stanley and Sara Saleh after the performance of Ceasefire
Dobby, L-Fresh The Lion, Gwenda Stanley and Sara Saleh after the performance of Ceasefire
Read the room major parties – no pride in genocide from Gadigal to Gaza 
Read the room major parties – no pride in genocide from Gadigal to Gaza 

Paul Gregoire

Paul Gregoire is a Sydney-based journalist and writer. He's the winner of the 2021 NSW Council for Civil Liberties Award For Excellence In Civil Liberties Journalism. Prior to Sydney Criminal Lawyers®, Paul wrote for VICE and was the news editor at Sydney’s City Hub.

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