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Australia Day is Australia's national day, marking the anniversary of Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet raising the British Union Jack at Sydney Cove in 1788. After the Federation of Australia on 1 January 1901, the official recognition and dates of Australia Day and its corresponding holidays emerged gradually and changed many times ...
Opponents of changing the flag have made the following arguments: It is a popular symbol. [15] No alternative national flag has attained the same degree of acceptance accorded to the existing flag. [1] The flag is a unique combination of devices recognised by law, custom and tradition as Australia's chief national symbol.
That’s why many of Australia’s Indigenous peoples, and an increasing number of the non-Indigenous or “settler” population, have long dubbed the national holiday “Invasion Day” or ...
In 2021, she again criticised the push to change the date of Australia Day, saying that changing the date would not improve the lives of Aboriginal people. [53] Price described Australia Day as a "magical day" [ 54 ] and rejected claims that the day commemorates the subjugation of Aboriginal people.
Opposing campaigners made their final pitches on Friday over changing the Australia's constitution to acknowledge a place for Indigenous Australians on the eve of the nation's first referendum in ...
Is it possible the first two arguments against change could be cleaned up and amalgamated? The lead for this section is clumsily written to my way of thinking with "current Australian flag" and "existing national flag" in consecutive sentences. Gloriousrevolution 05:26, 28 March 2011 (UTC) Fixed it for you and removed the Tags.
He rejected any suggestion that Australia was not already an independent nation and said that, while the Australian Constitution works "remarkably well", it was the institution of monarchy that was the crux of his argument for change: [14] It is commonly said that all this argument is about is whether we want an Australian as our head of state.
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