A majority of Australians want to keep Australia Day’s date, but under-35s disagree

Younger Australians are more readily accepting of progressive social change. Photo: Getty

The issue of when or whether to celebrate Australia Day seems to have become stuck in a loop of fierce debate without resolution.

There are those who want to mark January 26 as the start of modern Australia, while others view it as the start of systematic dispossession of Indigenous Australians.