Australia Day: Indigenous figure Kyra Galante tells PM shifting date from January 26 would help reconciliation

The Federal Government is being urged to show leadership and change the date of Australia Day as a “practical” step toward Indigenous reconciliation.

Indigenous woman Kyra Galante, the WA ambassador for the failed Yes case in the Voice to Parliament referendum, said shifting the national celebration from January 26 would ease the grief and trauma that many Aboriginal people felt on the date.

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