I would like to, while fending off the very right it needs to be said
SOME on the left, SOME who use PC like a filthy dish cloth need to be told
Moving the day is divisive, it promotes division
Our country strives to be one, we, the best of us, KNOW past crimes against our first nation took place
We KNOW past efforts to make a better life for them have failed more often than not
But we KNOW too only a handful want to change the date
Keep the welcome to country, the smoking ceremony, remember on that day all of our past
But keep our inclusive day for every Australian and shove the PC/Minority trouble making division

I agree with one of the TV commentators the other day who said we should keep 26th January and, have a special day for acknowleging the Australian Indigenous' plight/fate/experience.
If I remember right he recommended a day in May.
Rudd's apology didn't cut so perhaps a day in May will.

any day is offensive for those who have rewritten history.

Already runner? your bigotry ,knowing you CLAIM to be Christian damns you
70 percent plus do not want to change the day
What number of first nation want to? probably no more
So both the lost right love it and the very left want it, do they understand they WILL NEVER GET IT
Maybe they just like division
We can never change history, change the truth todays Australians in big numbers have ancestors who came post ww2, not on the first fleet, and took no part in the crimes we know took place
Always look for the center path, find a crowd to travel with
Not a fringe element that harms us by dividing us

I've said before, we should change the name to Thanksgiving.

Those of Anglo decent can give thanks that their ancestors found Sydney Cove and were of a type to create a nation from such beginnings.

Those of non-Anglo decent can give thanks that they and their ancestors were permitted to come to the nation the founders created.

The aboriginals (calling them First people or First Nation is historically incorrect) can give thanks that its was the British who turned up. Had it been the French, Spanish, Belgians or Chinese things would have been vastly more difficult and gruesome for their ancestors.

Finally, we can use all the left over paraphernalia from the US celebration

80 percent of Australians are not radicals
Far right or far left
Want to bet that is not true?
Watch the results of this years election
Both sides would have us believe their side is the only one
But the true poll numbers about this are 74 percent not agreeing with change
How then/why would either minority think we need to be separate?
We rejected Apartheid, always will, being one country one people, aware of our past wrongs is good enough for most of us