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Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler: Happy Australia Day. Let’s make it a two-day festival

Noel Pearson makes the case for starting the observance of Australia Day on January 25 and continuing it into January 26, Alan Kohler writes. Photo: TND

January 26 is a ridiculous national day, but it’s the one we’ve got, and we’re stuck with it.

It’s just the day in 1788 when the ships carrying convicts from England decamped from Botany Bay to Port Jackson because it was a better spot.

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