According to the Australia Day website: “The tradition of having Australia Day as a national holiday on 26 January is a recent one. Not until 1935 did all the Australian states and territories use that name to mark that date. Not until 1994 did they begin to celebrate Australia Day consistently as a public holiday on that date.”

I am a proud Aboriginal man of the Kamilaroi/Ngunnawal nations. I believe that all Aboriginal countries need to unite to allow our future generations to fulfil their duties and carry on the legacies that our people hold.

According to the Australia Day website, it is a day where “we come together as a nation to celebrate what's great about Australia and being Australian.”

Free speech isn’t something I thought about much before Andrew Bolt gave me a reason to.

Indigeneity is perceived as a form of inherent bias, whereas whiteness brings with it at least the potential to feign objectivity.