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This is what happened today:
6.23am GMT
It's fair to say Scott Morrison's comment about how 28 January, 1788 wasn't a particularly flash day for the people on those [first fleet] vessels either," has not gone down well.
Labor's Indigenous Australians spokeswoman, Linda Burney, said:
Suffering is not a competition. What the prime minister has said makes no sense.
As the leader of the country, he has an example to set for the rest of the nation and he should know better.
Luckily our prime minister doesn't have an electorate connected with this event.
.@ScottMorrisonMP says it (Jan 26, 1788) wasn't such a flash day for the people on the vessels". Show me the flash days" Blackfullas have had since then? When you talk about how far we've come", you mean white prosperity. Coz I'm still set to die 10-15 years before my mates.
Could we perhaps change 'Australia Day' to 'Not a Flash Day'? pic.twitter.com/qNObGOXcHU
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