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Australia Day poll shows how attitudes to changing the date have shifted

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The debate around Australia Day and whether the date should be changed to better include Indigenous Australians has ramped up in recent years and now it seems prevailing attitudes towards the day have started to shift.January 26, 1788, was the day Arthur Phillip arrived in Sydney Cove and founded the settler colony of NSW.
To many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people this is recognised as the day the dispossession and marginalisation of Indigenous Australians began and is affiliated with…

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