Jesinta Campbell issues most scathing Australia Day message EVER: Buddy Franklin’s model wife slams ‘colonisation’ in brutal spray

Jesinta Campbell has shared a blistering post condemning Australia Day as a celebration of ‘colonisation’.  

The former Miss Universe Australia, 32, who is is married to Indigenous Swans star Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin, took to Instagram Stories on Thursday to re-share several posts by prominent anti-Australia Day campaigners. 

The first post simply had the words ‘Australia Day’ crossed out, with the words ‘Invasion Day’ written below in bold. 

It continued: ‘The coming of one race at the expense of another. Will you learn the proper place names of the land you live on? Once you’ve done this, look into events they hold on this date/all year round. Go to them. Surround yourself in the culture.’ 

Finally, Jesinta reposted a graphic that read: ‘Australia is the only country that marks colonisation as their national day.’ 

Jesinta Campbell, 32, (left, with husband Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin) shared a blistering post condemning Australia Day as a celebration of ‘colonisation’ on Thursday 

Australia Day, observed each year on January 26, marks the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 when the first governor of the British colony of New South Wales, Arthur Philip, hoisted the Union Jack at Sydney Cove. 

But for many First Nations people, it is regarded as ‘Invasion Day’ or the ‘Day of Mourning’, with many campaigning for the holiday to be abolished completely or the date changed.

Jesinta has long been an outspoken critic of Australia Day. 

The first post simply had the words ‘Australia Day’ crossed out, with the words ‘Invasion Day’ written below in bold

It continued: ‘The coming of one race at the expense of another. Will you learn the proper place names of the land you live on? Once you’ve done this, look into events they hold on this date/all year round. Go to them. Surround yourself in the culture.’

Finally, Jesinta reposted a graphic that read: ‘Australia is the only country that marks colonisation as their national day’

In January 2022, she posted on Instagram that the holiday should not be a ‘day of celebration’, and that it is ‘a date that marked the beginning of the genocide and massacres of the Indigenous population, the confiscation of their ancestral lands and banning of their culture.

The model, who represented her country at the 2010 Miss Universe pageant, added: ‘There’s no excuse for anyone in this country not to know why tomorrow, January 26, is a hurtful day to celebrate “Australia Day”‘. 

A year earlier, Jesinta had penned a similar Instagram post branding the national holiday a ‘day of mourning’ before going on to say ‘there is no pride in genocide’.

In January 2022, Jesinta posted on Instagram that the holiday should not be a ‘day of celebration’, and that it is ‘a date that marked the beginning of the genocide and massacres of the Indigenous population, the confiscation of their ancestral lands and banning of their culture

She also published an emotional essay in Stellar magazine back in January 2021,  arguing that Australia Day should be moved to a date that ‘doesn’t hold so much hurt for so many people.’

‘I have seen my husband well up when talking about his mum and how she used to have to run away with her siblings when they knew the government trucks were coming to take them away from their parents,’ she wrote. 

The brunette was referring to the stolen generation, where Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their communities due to various government policies.

‘While I had read and learnt about the horrors of Australia’s past, it wasn’t until I listened to the pain endured from someone close to me that I began to deeply feel the importance of changing the date.’

For many First Nations people, Australia Day is regarded as ‘Invasion Day’ or the ‘Day of Mourning’, with many campaigning for the holiday to be abolished completely or the date changed. (Pictured: Woman holding a ‘Change The Date’ sign at an Invasion Day protest on January 26, 2023) 

While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hasn’t explicitly mentioned any plans to change the date, a rising number of councils and state governments are choosing to cancel traditional Australia Day activities, including citizenship ceremonies. 

In recent years Invasion Day protests have overshadowed any festivities with thousands attending rallies in major cities demanding the date be changed.

Large protests are expected this year after the referendum to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the constitution was voted down in October.