The Greens say they're throwing their support behind the campaign to change the date of Australia Day.
Greens councillors across the country, who are launching local campaigns to move the January 26 date have been told they can count on the full support and resources of the national Greens party.
Greens leader Richard di Natale told Fairfax Media that all Australians want a day on which they can come together and celebrate the nation's diverse, open and free society, but that "January 26 is not that day".
Indigenous leaders are pushing for the change as the 26th of January marks the date the First Fleet landed in Sydney Cove in 1788 and represents the beginning of British colonisation.
There's strong resistance to a date change from other quarters though, including from the Turnbull government.
