Australia Day: The 'quiet rebranding' of a controversial national holiday

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In the town of York, Dennis Kickett is combing Australia Day celebrations with Indigenous storytelling

By Hannah Ritchie

BBC News, Sydney

On 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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