I have to admit that I am also one who wants Australia
Day to remain as is. It's part of our history.

The First Fleeters considered themselves British.
In fact it took some time for the British and their
descendents in Australia to stop thinking of England
as "home".

Australia for a very long time was viewed as an outpost
of the British Empire. Far beyond the time when this
perception was literally true or even remotely
reasonable.

And yet, as Ben Pobjie writes:

" Yet somehow, the diverse peoples of the Indigenous
nations and deluded white criminals of the motherland
ended up forming a single nation. This amazing land we
call Australia. Which combines all the best of its
brutally cruel origins in modern complacency and
self deception".

Pobjie's book - "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie," is worth a read.

Why people even bother about changing the day shows the spoiled-child like mentality of so many who never had to work for a living & never nor ever will contribute to society in a positive manner !

Aboriginals don't need to participate in White Anglo Society if they don't want to, they have their own territory, they can have the own Aboriginal Nation holidays if they desire. Why should it be ok for Aboriginals to force their opinion on White Anglo people, this is dictatorship. Aboriginal's couldn't defend themselves when the British arrived. Victoria had a policy of protection of native peoples. No we shouldn't change the date of Australia Day

Just make it a long weekend every year. Like it used to be. Nothing more Australian than that.

"Aboriginals don't need to participate in White Anglo Society" shows not only is the Kudos Kid a white supremacists, a racists who believes in the superiority of his whiteness, but he supports apartheid as well. A bit of a Botha type!

Paul1405,
Why force them if they don't want to ? They're already totally confused with so many special days & programmes just for them & the many who pull their Aboriginality out of a raffle barrel !