Australia Day, what does it mean to those who live in Australia, should people be divided by the day or should it be reconciled to another day?.

"Happy Australia Day" but "on a different date".

"Russell Crowe"

What is to become of us?

As a white person bought up in Australia, with indigenous heritage through family, how can a recognition of history amend what people feel in today climate of Australian multiculturalism, as a people and for those with citizenship it becomes less of what we consider racism, more so the stereotype of what those people represent for the culture now.
Straight away it doesnt matter what the mainstream wants, it becomes a us and them debate, for the derecognition of history, it doesnt matter if the date changes the history is what it is without making another hostoric recognition to disembowel history good or bad to right wrongs from history, and most of Multicultural Australia would recognise that being Australian is a way of life and keeping that way as unique and alive without the current loss of our fellow man through political correctness and fear of offending or being offended.

Can anything change if the day changes, in most of the minds of everybody it is a day to share with all our fellow Australians, and it is a shame that Indigenous Australia wish to separate from those who exist in history now, is there another way? It is an interesting question, and no one wants to talk about it, most would suggest an easy fix of changing the day, purely so we can celebrate hand in hand, neutralise the recognition of the first fleet and to delegate celebration of what it is to be Australian, as with removing Indigenous Australia from our history we lose our identity as a whole, and hope that a change would make a difference, as the national sorry day did for many Indigenous Australians through Kevin Rudd's apology on behalf of past government.

Why is Australia split on celebrations of being Australian?

1. Australia Day is a recognition of the first fleet which rowed ashore on January 26th.
2. Australia Day wasnt celebrated as a national holiday until 1935, and not all states and territories celebrated it consistantly until 1994.
3. Australia Day in the current recognition wasnt recognised originally as a day set for all Australians, rather referenced as First Landing Day or Foundation Day.

As a person born in Australia, I recognise and acknowlege the noongar people as the first people of Australia, we look to them as those first people with respect of what identity they have allowed us to become under the place we all live!