I don't care what day it's on as long as we're all together celebrating it.

Councils such as Darebin/Yarraville/Fremantle treading their own paths and dumping AD without councillors having enunciated this as policy before election, are agents of the far left/Greens. If they allowed their constituents a proper vote instead of carrying out sham surveys, their activism would fail.

Di Natale's call for debate is subtext for more activism at local gov't level along the lines above. Greens rule over many local governments because they don't divulge their politics/policies before elections, and have a passionate support army of fellow ideologues who are generally underemployed and at hand to help.

Wot!...give up a holiday....whatta the unions gonna say?
and Australia Day of all days...the day that commemorates the theft of Austalia from the Indigenous...Nah!
What about Anzac Day....the day where, 'We will Remember Them' except nobody can quite figure out what to remember'

Whatever happens - Australia day should be about
unification of Australia, not dividing us as a
society. So having a conversation is very
important at this stage.

It should not be about trying to lay guilt on
individuals but about trying to make sure that
our future, our children and Australians generally
have an understanding of the history of Australia.

We need to raise awareness and discussion amongst
the community to look at what this day means on the
26th January to a whole range of people and then
decide if we are going to change the date or not.
But it should be the people of Australia who decide.
Because Australia Day should be an inclusive national
occasion for us all.

Yuyutsu Quote "Just cancel it - and all other public holidays, so that working-people can take their holidays when they want rather than when told."

Good idea but in too many jobs the employer still gets to dictate when a lot of people can take their holidays.

Warren Mundine has called for the “disgraceful debate” on Australia Day to stop. He is irritated by the “same old people” arguing the “same old cases”. He wants, rather, aboriginal health and unemployment dealt with. Given his attitude and that of people like Jacinta Price, the Greens are making complete fools of themselves. Neither Labor nor the Coalition are interested in this nonsense.

Nobody's giving up a holiday, Special Delivery. An AD holiday will exist on one date or another, but it's what Councils do on that day that is at question.

A council run citizenship ceremony is an appropriate part of AD tradition and when this is not carried out but proposed for another date by a Council, in order to make a protest about the nationally determined date, the right to hold one is correctly withdrawn by the federal gov't.

If Greens want simply to have a national conversation, as Di Natale claims, they don't have to stoke it by this political activism at local council level. Council elections are not compulsory and are poorly participated, so to suggest such activism represents a grass-roots ground-swell is delusional. This is especially so when the electorate was given no idea what it was voting for in the first place