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Nah, leave it where it is. On Australia day you want baking sun and beach. Wouldn't be much fun in Melbourne/Adelaide/Perth/Hobart in the middle of winter.
And what will changing the date do? Give it a generation, then *that day will be offensive for symbolising the invasion.
The Left have a way of rebranding or changing the language under the misguided notion that it somehow removes stigma. Think about it. White people have always just been 'white'. How many names for people of colour are there? Many of which were the PC term in their day which has now become offensive. Why should a non-pejorative term for a person of colour be offensive anyway?
The simple solution is just to admit to what happened; you can't reconcile while one party doesn't even believe there's anything to reconcile *for. Yes, we murdered the aboriginal people in a near genocidal event. But we are not our ancestors. So many people think we're being asked to feel shame for the actions of our ancestors, but really it's more about admitting the the fact that it happened at all. The Right seems to want to erase much of this vital part of our nation's history from the history books. We should just own it. Then we wouldn't even be talking about moving the date. We need to own our history, not to wrap it up in rebranding and euphemisms.
Markus
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