Local councils, not even mentioned in the Constitution, are a joke. Most people don't even bother to vote at council elections. Most people don't care what they think about anything. Most people don't care about the Greens - they get about 8 percent of the vote in real elections. Neither major party wants the date changed, so it will not be changed.

Last year, a Guardian poll which was supposed to show that Australians really did want Australia day changed, confounded the silly Left paper by coming up with 85% wanting it to stay they way it is. The same number did not want a name change either. I don't think much will have changed since then. The Greens are mad dogs barking at the moon.

I am inclined to agree that the changing of the
date of Australia Day has become politicised.
As I stated earlier - many people are not to
concerned about it and some are not even aware of
what the day represents apart from it being a
public holiday. The history of Australia Day is
an interesting one - and the name "Australia Day,"
is also relatively recent - it was known by other
names in the past.

I would be interested to know what percentage of
our Indigenous people really want that date changed?

I think a better use of our tax payer dollars would be to nominate a 'Time to become an Australian Day' so all those who enjoy the benefits we have provided, either choose to be one of us, or not. And I'm not just referring to indigenous folk.

It just seems to me that this indiginous 'victim card' is continually milked for all its worth. Approaching 230 years. At what stage should one move on.

Australia would still be like one of those places Trump recently mentioned if not for British settlement. Thankfully young girls now have a future.

In defence of homosexual marriage, homosexuals used to say that if someone didn't like it, they didn't have to do it.

By the same logic, perhaps di Natale could strongly defend the same principle and declare that, if someone doesn't want to celebrate Australia Day on January 26th, the 69th anniversary of Australian citizenship (i.e. in 1949), they don't have to do it.

Goose-gander.