Australia Day: move or stay?

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Peter Fitzsimons, Anthony Dillon, Geoffrey Winters, Norma Ingram, Jeremy SammutJanuary 24, 2018

Calls are growing to move Australia Day away from January 26. But is having the national day on the anniversary of the First Fleet’s arrival in 1788 really insensitive to Indigenous people? How would changing the date help the plight of Aboriginal Australians? And if we change Australia Day, what date should we choose?

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