Americans have reacted with shock after learning via a frustrated mother’s social media post that Australians have a “Sorry Day” to apologise to indigenous people.
The Aussie woman, named Lauren, wrote on X on Friday that she gave her son the day off when his school was celebrating National Sorry Day “because we have nothing to be sorry for and I am sick to death of my White sons being guilt tripped”.
National Sorry Day has been held every year since 1998 on May 26 to commemorate the “stolen generations”, and is marked by federal and state governments and many local councils, including the City of Sydney, which illuminated Town Hall in purple on Tuesday and falsely stated it was on “Gadigal land”.
Popular conservative commentator Matt Walsh was among those who responded to Lauren’s post, and expressed his disgust at what he had found out about the day.
This popped up in my feed for some reason. I had to look it up and yes it turns out that Australia literally has a “Sorry Day” where all the white Australians apologize to the “indigenous” people. How did Australia become such a weak, pathetic country? When did this happen? https://t.co/MZu5GxxjGI
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 29, 2026
It’s important that Americans understand that every terrible suicidal leftist trend in Europe exists in Australia
We have seething Islamist ghettos in Western Sydney and North West Melbourne which boasted one of the highest ISIS recruitment rates in the world in the 2010s – in…
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(@DrewPavlou) May 29, 2026
I take my daughter to a playgroup at the local primary school and I overhear the kids do their ‘Welcome to Country,’ on the loudspeaker which they apparently do every single day.
Australian children are being told daily that they are on stolen land. We are truly the land down…
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“This popped up in my feed for some reason. I had to look it up and yes it turns out that Australia literally has a ‘Sorry Day’ where all the White Australians apologise to the ‘indigenous’ people. How did Australia become such a weak, pathetic country? When did this happen?” he asked.
“I used to think Australians were a bunch of tough old bastards living down there with crocodiles and spiders the size of dinner plates. Turns out they’re just warm weather Canadians.”
Another American wrote: “Imagine what having a ‘sorry day’ must do to the psyche of children and God help us for how it materialises in their adult lives.”
Many Aussies also chimed in on the post, including independent journalist Drew Pavlou, who wrote: “Australia has held 29 National Sorry Days since 1998. Longer than I’ve been alive. I wonder when the apology will be accepted.”
In a separate comment he added “it’s important that Americans understand that every terrible suicidal leftist trend in Europe exists in Australia”.
“It’s so much worse than people understand. On the current trajectory European Australians will be a minority within 15-20 years, at which point leftists will attempt to change the flag and rename the country and every major city with Aboriginal place names,” he wrote.
“I take my daughter to a playgroup at the local primary school and I overhear the kids do their ‘Welcome to Country,’ on the loudspeaker which they apparently do every single day,” wrote Celine Baumgarten.
“Australian children are being told daily that they are on stolen land. We are truly the land down under (upside down).”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shared his own a statement for National Sorry Day on Tuesday, calling the so-called stolen generations “one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history” and paying tribute to the “courage of survivors”.
“It was their bravery and honest that faced Australia up to the intergenerational damage caused by the policies and prejudices of that time,” he wrote.
“On National Sorry Day we acknowledge their pain, we honour their strength and we renew our national commitment to the work of healing.”
Header image: Left, Anthony Albanese making an apology for the “stolen generations” in February (PMO). Right, Sydney Town Hall on Sorry Day (City of Sydney). Inset, Matt Walsh’s post (X).
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