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14 MEREDITH and DISTRICT NEWSWhat does Australia Daymean to you?Steve GoatEach year, it seems, the disagreement about January26th grows and grows. Quite a few people call forchange. Polls tell us most people aren’t against change.Unfortunately this disunity continues. And why the26th?We have no date for the first arrivals, that was over65,000 years ago. We know the first Asians andEuropeans were here well before Captain Cook arrivedon 28th April, 1770. He only stayed a few months forShip repairs. With the American Revolution, the Britishhad to find somewhere to send convicts. So the FirstFleet landed at Botany Bay on January 18th, thenmoved to Sydney Cove on the 25th/26th January 1778.But it was Matthew Flinders who circumnavigated thecontent in 1801-1803. The impact of white settlementon the locals was huge, in both health and land access.Smallpox may have killed more than the aggressiveland take over. Grazing animals had a devastatingeffect on the ecology.Britain enacted our Federation in July 1900, so thefederation was declared on January 1st, 1901.It wasn’t until 26th of January 1948, that AustralianCitizenship was legislated. Until then we had beenBritish Subjects. Indigenous Australians were notgranted the vote until the referendum of 1967.So we are much more than a one time colony ofBritain. The Aborigines surely have the oldest claim.So too, the many peoples, with many cultures from thefour corners of the world that have come to contributeto modern Australia.Maybe we do need another day, a truly national day,without history’s baggage, to come together andCelebrate all of our cultural diversity.Enjoy writing?Well, our readersenjoy reading.We should introduce you.
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