Australia Day: The 'quiet rebranding' of a controversial national holiday
Published1 hour agoImage source, York FestivalImage caption,In the town of York, Dennis Kickett is combing Australia Day celebrations with Indigenous storytellingBy Hannah RitchieBBC News, Sydneyvery goodOn 26 January every year - which marks the 1788 landing of Britain's First Fleet in Sydney Cove - two competing stories about Australia are told.ion-building and achievement; the other is of the displacement and dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.digenous Australians protest or sit the day out, this year Dennis Kickett is co-hosting a celebration like few others.
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