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Australia Day a vital part of conversation about who we are
By Alison Page
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Last week, a friend phoned and told me they were to receive an Australia Day Honour on January 26 – and to apologise for any offence caused.
But I wasn’t offended – though it wasn’t the first time that assumption had been made.
Australia Day is liable to evoke controversy each year.
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I am a descendant of the Walbanga and Wadi Wadi people of the Yuin nation on New South Wales’ South Coast. My father grew up around Botany Bay. My mother is a ten-pound pom.