Australia’s national day marks the beginning of its colonisation. There are better, more meaningful dates that reflect Australian nationhood and democratic choice.

The day a nation celebrates as its National Day should be the anniversary of something significant which the nation or its people achieved, such as storming the Bastille, or signing the Declaration of Independence – 26 January has no such significance for Australia.

It is the day that the British moved their embryonic convict colony from Botany Bay to Sydney Cove, hardly a cause for........

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