Victoria Museum:
".. the Dandenongs, James Dredge as Assistant to the Port Phillip Protectorate for Aborigines for the Goulburn District, reported in 1839 of Daung wurrung people being poisoned with flour laced with arsenic..
" such was the prejudice and ill will existing amongst many settlers towards the blacks... many of the aborigines had been destroyed by them with 'sweet damper' (James Dredge Diary, 1 June 1839, p.52).
... The depredations wrought by displacement from their land and high death rates from disease and massacre saw the population diminished rapidly. Census figures for the Kulin were 1225 people in 1839-42 and only 181 people in 1863."

Solution: Abolish Australia Day and don't replace it with anything else, no holiday, no nuthin'.

Result: Another productive work day.

Private celebration by those so inclined to be allowed.

Surely, everybody celebrates their birthday.

Because the Commonwealth of Australia was born at midnight 31 December, it must be December 31. It cannot be any arbitrary date.

The colonies were united in the UK Foreign Office which was formed in March 1782 by combining the Departments of the Secretary of State. In 1901 the Oz state governments were headed by Royal Governors as in the 1800s.

Australia Day is particularly memorable to inmates of jails and detainees on Manus Island who revere the distinguished heritage.

Convict Day, surely a day of national pride...

We all need the strength of our convictions.