Australia Day was first celebrated on July 30, 1915.
It wasn’t until 1935 that all states adopted a common date and name for Australia Day to be held on January 26.
It took until the 1940s for Australia to get its national holiday in place and it wasn’t until 1984 that the National Australia Day Committee was federally funded.
Couple of world wars in there too. Might have taken precedence.?
