Australia Day's barbecue stopper is the same every year | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Tue, 23/01/2018 - 3:09pm

By the time of the first formal protest in 1938, 26 January had already long been an Indigenous day of mourning

Irrespective of whether the politicians shift Australia’s annual orgy of self-congratulation from 26 January, it will always thrive for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and those who support betterment of their rights, as a national day of mourning.

It doesn’t matter how ridiculously the mainstream political parties rhetorically contort and become tangled in their claims that our dedicated national day can at once be a unifying cause celebre for things Australian and immensely painful for the Indigenous.