January 26 is never just “a day off”. For First Nations people, it marks invasion, genocide and the beginning of more than two centuries of dispossession, and every year mobs of people across so‑called Australia hit the streets to make that clear. Today’s Invasion Day rallies and marches were once again full of signs that cut straight to the point — calling out ongoing colonial violence, demanding real justice, and reminding everyone that sovereignty has never been ceded.
