Jesinta Campbell posts most scathing Australia Day post EVER: Buddy Franklin's model wife slams 'colonization' in cheeky spray

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

The former Miss Universe Australia, 32, who is married to Indigenous Swans star Lance 'Buddy' Franklin, took to Instagram Stories on Thursday to reshare several posts from prominent anti-Australia Day campaigners.

The first message simply had the words 'Australia Day' crossed out, while the words 'Invasion Day' were in bold below.

It continued: 'The advent of one race at the expense of another. Can you learn the correct place names of the country you live in? Once you've done this, look at the events they're hosting on this date/throughout the year. Go to them. Surround yourself with the culture.”

Finally, Jesinta reposted an image with the caption: “Australia is the only country to mark colonization as a national holiday.”

Jestina's posts came hours after a 110-year-old Captain Cook statue was found in a Melbourne park severed at the ankles and falling from its stone base.

The bronze statue in St Kilda's Catani Gardens was cut from its stone base shortly before 3.30am on Thursday.

Vandals painted “the colony will fall” in red on the memorial base and had the statue cut off at the ankles, face down in the grass.

The first message simply had the words 'Australia Day' crossed out, with the words 'Invasion Day' in bold below

It continued: 'The advent of one race at the expense of another. Can you learn the correct place names of the country you live in? Once you've done this, look at the events they're hosting on this date/throughout the year. Go to them. Surround yourself with the culture.”

Australia Day, celebrated every 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 considered 'Invasion Day' or the 'Day of Mourning', with many campaigning to abolish the holiday entirely or change the date.

Jesinta has long been an outspoken critic of Australia Day.

Finally, Jesinta reposted an image with the caption: 'Australia is the only country to mark colonization as a national holiday'

Jestinta's post came hours after a Captain Cook monument was vandalized in a St. Kilda park early Thursday morning

In January 2022, she posted on Instagram that the holiday should not be a “holiday” but that it is “a date that marked the beginning of the genocide and massacres of indigenous people, the seizure of their ancestral lands and the banning of their culture.

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

A year earlier, Jesinta had written a similar post on Instagram in which she labeled the national holiday a “day of mourning,” before going on to say, “There is no pride in genocide.”

Jesinta has long been an outspoken critic of Australia Day. Pictured in 2014 wearing an Australian flag bikini

In January 2022, Jesinta posted on Instagram that the holiday should not be a “public holiday”, and that it is “a date that marked the beginning of the genocide and massacres of the indigenous people, the seizure of their ancestral lands and the banning of their culture

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

“I've seen my husband's back when he talked about his mother and how she had to run away with her siblings when they knew the government trucks were coming to pick them up 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.

'Although I had read and learned about the horrors of Australia's past, it wasn't until I listened to the pain of someone close to me that I began to deeply understand the importance of changing the date.'

For many First Nations people, Australia Day is considered 'Invasion Day' or the 'Day of Mourning', with many campaigning to abolish the holiday entirely or change the date. (Image: Woman holding a 'Change The Date' sign during an Invasion Day protest on January 26, 2023)

While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not explicitly mentioned plans to change the date, an increasing number of municipalities and state governments are choosing to cancel traditional Australia Day activities, including citizenship ceremonies.

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

Major protests are expected this year after the referendum to enshrine the voice of indigenous people in parliament in the constitution was rejected in October.