Families picnic and barbecue on the beach on Australia Day (Image: AAP/Jenny Evans/Private Media) Simon Storey writes: Re “Dutton’s parting gift: Conservative Australia Day outrage, a Christmas tradition” : I was once firmly in the “change the date” camp until I began thinking more about our penchant to forget in this wide brown land. Australia Day needs to stay because we can all rally on the streets and highlight the extreme disadvantage and racism that First Nations peoples have to put up with, thereby keeping up the pressure for real change. We can banish it with glee when there is true equality for First Nations peoples — when…
