I can ' t remember , my memory is failing in my old age ! <| sep |> The dates mostly irrelevant anyway . We could change it to any date and still some people would find offence , because it ' s what the daydate symbolises . Some people view it as invasion day , when White colonialism came to take Australia from its original inhabitants . Some people see it as a significant day in Australian history , a date to commemorate the founding of a nation . Some people see it as a day to tie the Aussie flag around there head , yell at Muslims and get shitfaced . Changing the date will never change peoples opinions of what the day signifies to them . So no , we shouldn ' t change it , the discussion is very important though . In future perhaps with more discussion we will all see that date as just a day to be proud of where we are from .