"We have yet to pass from adolescence to the mature identity deserving of an Australia Day to celebrate the special event marking its arrival. That will only occur when we become a republic," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Invasion Day protests are being held around Australia with tens of thousands of demonstrators calling for an end to discrimination and deaths in custody.
Major sporting codes have dropped the use of "Australia Day" on social media, with clubs and national teams calling for a change of date.
Australians have been urged to reflect on the things that unite us as millions of people celebrate, commemorate and protest Australia Day 2024.
Here is the list of local Canberrans and regional people honoured in the 2024 Australia Day awards.
A Captain Cook statue in Melbourne has been hacked off at the ankles the day before Australia Day.
National cricket captain Pat Cummins has become the highest-profile sporting star to call for a move away from marking Australia Day on January 26.
The ACT Greens say January 26 is not a day of celebration and public money would be better spent on prompting participation in Reconciliation Day.
Police have charged a man over pro-Australia Day vandalism at a Woolworths in Brisbane.
After Woolworths announced it would not stock Australia Day merchandise, one of its Brisbane stores has been targeted by vandals.
May 9 is the date the first Australian parliament met, and when the first parliament in Canberra and the first on Capital Hill opened. It means far more than the King’s birthday, or January 26, says ANNA HOWE.
An Australia Day cartoon by PAUL DORIN.
Canberra's first "Lights on the Lake" show is set to be the highlight of Australia Day celebrations this week. "Lights on the Lake" will begin on January 25 and run until January 28.
Accomplished global authority and life-long conservationist, PROF PETER BRIDGEWATER wonders if we have become so inured to the biological homogenisation going on around us that we think Proteas are Australian.
IF you were an Aboriginal person would you be celebrating Australia Day on January 26, asks Julie Tongs.
POLICE are calling on the Queanbeyan community to look out for each other and celebrate "safely", as the state prepares to mark Australia Day tomorrow (January 26).
NSW police are reminding Queanbeyan motorists to take care on the roads as it launches a state-wide traffic operation in the lead up to Australia Day.
The contention around Australia Day grows with each passing year and now, says NICK OVERALL, more than ever, it’s important to ask the question, what is the history of Australia Day and does it have a future?
