Australia Day
noun
Aus·tra·lia Day
ȯ-ˈstrāl-yə- 
ä-,
ə-
: a national holiday in Australia commemorating the landing of the British at Sydney Cove in 1788 and observed on the Monday of or next following Jan. 26
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The second part is titled Fear is the Rider: Australia Day, based on a novel by Kenneth Cook (Wake in Fright), which was initially launched in the market by McDonagh in 2022.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
In those chambers, the colony invented the public holiday of Australia Day in 1994.
—Maggie Knight-Williams, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
Members of the Hewitt family pose on the forecourt during Australia Day Live 2024 at the Sydney Opera House on January 26, 2024 in Sydney, Australia.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 July 2024
In January, on the eve of Australia Day, an antipodean version of the Fourth of July, a bronze statue of Cook that had stood in Melbourne for more than a century was sawed off at the ankles.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Like a good friend, three weeks later, Mr. Quintero showed up for Mr. Walters at his birthday/Australia Day open house in January where about 80 guests snacked on Vegemite, Tim Tams and assorted Aussie lollies at Mr. Walter’s Chelsea apartment decked out with Australian flags.
—Rosalie R. Radomsky, New York Times, 5 May 2023
There are growing public calls to change the date of Australia Day, which is known to many Indigenous people as Invasion Day and Survival Day, because of the disastrous impacts on First Nations people of British colonists taking their land without a treaty.
—Rod McGuirk, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2023
Human rights organisation Amnesty International Australia spearheaded a 'Change the Date' campaign until 2018, which involved a petition proposing to move the date of Australia Day to a more 'appropriate date' that isn't associated with the violence of colonialism.
—Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2023
Many argue that Australia Day should be changed to a date that isn’t painful for indigenous Australians.
—Alice Uribe, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
In those chambers, the colony invented the public holiday of Australia Day in 1994.
—Maggie Knight-Williams, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
Members of the Hewitt family pose on the forecourt during Australia Day Live 2024 at the Sydney Opera House on January 26, 2024 in Sydney, Australia.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 July 2024
In January, on the eve of Australia Day, an antipodean version of the Fourth of July, a bronze statue of Cook that had stood in Melbourne for more than a century was sawed off at the ankles.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Like a good friend, three weeks later, Mr. Quintero showed up for Mr. Walters at his birthday/Australia Day open house in January where about 80 guests snacked on Vegemite, Tim Tams and assorted Aussie lollies at Mr. Walter’s Chelsea apartment decked out with Australian flags.
—Rosalie R. Radomsky, New York Times, 5 May 2023
There are growing public calls to change the date of Australia Day, which is known to many Indigenous people as Invasion Day and Survival Day, because of the disastrous impacts on First Nations people of British colonists taking their land without a treaty.
—Rod McGuirk, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2023
Human rights organisation Amnesty International Australia spearheaded a 'Change the Date' campaign until 2018, which involved a petition proposing to move the date of Australia Day to a more 'appropriate date' that isn't associated with the violence of colonialism.
—Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2023
Many argue that Australia Day should be changed to a date that isn’t painful for indigenous Australians.
—Alice Uribe, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
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