Has anyone actually bothered to find out what the procedure for changing the date would be. Talking about it is not much use if you don't know how it could be done, or by whom.

ttbn,

State governments have control over public holidays, when declared they are published in the 'Government Gazette' there are no federal public holidays in Australia, although like Xmas Day there are some uniform days in all states and territories. That why the Tories hate to declare a Monday as a public holiday for workers when the regular day falls on a weekend. That's why Mass Killing Day 25th April there is no day off when it falls on a weekend.

No answers yet. I couldn't find any either, including in the sites that Google didn’t want me to see - the ones they tell you aren't safe.

As of 3 days ago, the majority of Australians were happy for Australia Day to stay 'as is'. Trawled through various online conversations between the change and no change camps, and the general consensus was, it is going to happen any time soon, if at all.

The unhappy Left has lost one referendum on turning Australia into a republic; Albanese has knocked in the head his election-time idea of having another one, and the Voice referendum was an absolute disaster.

No matter how or by whom the Australia Day date could be changed, the politics are just not right, thanks (very much) to the OTT, hamfisted, tin-eared Albanese.

Left the 'not' out of not anytime soon.

Among the the change-the-date types was one of those Melbourne Mayors, a woman claiming to concerned about aborigines being comfortable about the day. Bugger the other 97% of the population, including her own blonde, porcelain-skinned self, is what she was really saying.

Foxy, stop looking through a magnifying glass and look through a wide
angle lens at the world. Look at the big picture the aborigines are
now in the picture, previously they were a non people.
Now they can make their own mark on human history.

Bezza

Interesting way of putting things. Probably a bit too subtle for the numpties.