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In this opinion piece, senior digital reporter  ANDREW MATHIESON writes that the creation of Australia Day on January 26 was, for all intents and purposes, based on a lie. MORE prophetic words could not be postulated regardless of which side of the debate Australians stand.   It is now anything but. The ACT Greens that forms the territory’s coalition government with Labor marks January 26 as a “Day of Mourning” and have threatened not to recognise Australia Day celebrations. It’s not that a better day can’t be found, but no worse date could have been chosen either. It can be mystifying how non-indigenous Australians who historically and psychologically are unaffected by early massacres of Aboriginal people and the consequential Frontier Wars that was hidden from 20th century textbooks would strongly object to changing the date of Australia Day, should there still be another national day to commemorate both the modern nation-state and the continent that homed the

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