Each year the Invasion Day cry gets louder. Each year we add names to the list of our dead

‘If the settlers weren’t so attached to having pride in genocide, they would see what it truly means to be proud of your people and your nation,’ Chelsea Watego writes. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Some years ago I swore I would never write another Invasion Day article, and I know I’m not alone in that decision.

I reckon the argument against “Australia Day” on 26 January is fairly convincing and has been well articulated by any number of Blackfullas. The reality is, it doesn’t particularly matter what we say or do, ‘cause “Australia Day” isn’t about us anyways.