In 2020 Kangaroos Alive created World Kangaroo Day to be held every year on October 24th. The mission is to create an international day to celebrate our national icon. In 2021 World Kangaroo Day was endorsed by Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison of the YUIN People with the Yuin Declaration for Kangaroos. This years theme- ‘Free to Roam their Songlines’ is a Back to Country initiative.

"Kangaroos are intelligent , sentient beings, living in family groups and have their own songlines, language, culture and dreaming. As they traverse their own dreaming tracks, they continue to activate the earth's songlines for the survival of all living things. 
Songlines, an ancient memory that connects this place we now call Australia, traverse vast distances through diverse landscapes, communicating land story and ancestral spirits' movements. The Songlines are such an important part of our mental and spiritual structure. They are lines of energy that run between places, animals and people.
Country as Songlines is deeply connected to Aboriginal spirituality and holds essential knowledge, cultural values, and wisdom. Songlines are Country - a visible memory of Australia's oneness.”  

Excerpts from the Yuin Declaration for Kangaroos, My Peoples Dreaming by Max Dulumunmun Harrison and Back to Country