Prime Minister Scott Morrison has proposed a new national day to celebrate Indigenous Australians in what is being seen as an effort to sidestep growing calls for Australia Day to be moved from January the 26th. It comes as the Byron Shire Council in New South Wales has become the latest in a small group of councils to shift celebrations away from that date. Mr Morrison says an Indigenous day would add to NAIDOC ((NAY-dok)) Week celebrations of Australia's rich culture while allowing the current date of Australia Day to remain.
The Government is facing growing calls to change the date of Australia Day out of respect for Indigenous Australians.
Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people feel it is wrong to celebrate a day that marked the beginning of British colonisation in Australia and led to widespread massacres of Indigenous people and the loss of traditional land ownership.
But the Prime Minister is standing firm on keeping Australia Day on January the 26th.
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