Invasion Day, and Invasion Day protests, are as old as Australia Day itself. On 26 January 1788, the first fleet arrived and British naval officer Arthur Phillip hoisted the Union Jack at Sydney Cove, establishing the first prison colony and essentially marking the beginning of European invasion of the continent. As Guardian Australia’s Douglas Smith explains, First Nations people have been fighting for equality since the first fleet arrived all those years ago, with these protests morphing from the Day of Mourning to Survival day in the 1980s to the modern Invasion Day demonstrations and marches you know today