Hi Foxy- I am also sorry for your loss.

Hi Joe- I forget where I saw the idea, but I like the suggestion of keeping Australia Day where it is, but replacing another public holiday, possibly the Queen's Birthday, with a public holiday on a day that is important to Indigenous people.

It won't please everyone, but it might be the best compromise.

Dear Joe and Benk,

Joe, I think Australia Day should be inclusive of all
Australians - not just a select few - so No - I do not
believe that anyone group should be the emphasis on
that day - which is what we currently have - isn't it?

If we're going to change the current date make it a date
that we can all share - such as Federation Day? Or when
and if we become a Republic?

Dear Benk,

Thank You for your condolences.

The Irish have St Patrick's Day
The Yanks July the Fourth
The French love their Bastille Day
A source of pride, of course.

We celebrate Australia Day
On a day that many grieve
So perhaps we need to change the date
To provide them some relief

Why not have a National Day
A day we all can share
I propose Federation Day
I think that would be fair.

Dear Foxy,

My condolences, it's hard but it will pass.

Hi Benk & Foxy,

Of course, keep the data where it is, but sort of wrap NAIDOC Week around it - in other words, shift NAIDOC Week from July to January - it's a far better holiday season in January anyway. That might concentrate everybody's minds, for a week, on BOTH the Indigenous presence, and the post-1788 realities.

Cheers,

Joe

Foxy: We celebrate Australia Day On a day that many grieve So perhaps we need to change the date To provide them some relief.

I don't think so Foxy. It's only a few Socialist Academic Fund sucking Aboriginals & the Greenies who would complain regardless of what day Australia Day was celebrated. These people need to be ignored with the contempt they deserve, & I do. Hopping on their Band Wagon because it's fashionable is not my thing. A lot of people hop on Band Wagons because they love the Wagon not so much the Band. Going by interviews I've seen, most of the people don't really have a clue what it is they are really Demonstrating about. Just jumping on the Wagon because it's going past.

Foxy: The Irish have St Patrick's Day The Yanks July the Fourth, The French love their Bastille Day. A source of pride, of course.

I say again; Let's keep Australia Day at the 26th & have a Native Day sometime later in the year. We can all dress down naked & cover ourselves in White Acrylic Paint stripes & dance around a fire of gidgery coals all day. We could eat roast wallaby, whole, unskinned & ungutted (dressed,) cooked over open coals, Yumm! Maybe some Porcupine & Snake too. That 'id be nice, don't you think.