Tensions over future of January 26 events

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Updated May 31 2020 - 7:45am, first published May 29 2020 - 1:24pm
Spectators at a January 26 fireworks display in 2019. Picture: Kate Healy.
Spectators at a January 26 fireworks display in 2019. Picture: Kate Healy.

In an extended and at times tense discussion about events held on January 26, several councillors found most common ground on one issue - that the date of Australia's national day should change.

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Jolyon Attwooll

Journalist

Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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