26 Jan 2023

Australia Day proving controversial

From Morning Report, 8:37 am on 26 January 2023

Australia Day, Invasion Day or Survival Day? 

There has been an increasingly vocal push to change Australia's national day from January 26 over past years. 

The date marks the anniversary of Britain's First Fleet arriving in Sydney in 1788, an event many Indigenous Australians find difficult to celebrate.

This year the event carries more weight, as debate around a referendum on a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament intensifies.

Reconciliation Australia is a non-government organisation that promotes reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. 

Its chief executive Karen Mundine spoke to Corin Dann.