I think changing the date is a bit of a wank and just the latest in a long series of social media activist hype trains for people to feel like they are a good person and receive validation from like minded people. It may be the case that Australia Day has negative connotations for some of the indigenous population, but is moving it around really going to change much? Like Plague said its still gonna be the same day and people will then shift onto the next small and petty thing they want to change.

I completely agree that rather than a nominal change of date of a public holiday, actually fix the many real problems that the indigenous population have. Some of the stats the WHO and other orgs have on how much poorer off the average indigenous person is in Aus to the rest of the population are terrible and really are a blight on the nation's record.