Thursday, September 14, 2017

Daily Mail: Australia Day is scrapped in Melbourne - compared to 'celebrating the Holocaust'




Marking Australia Day is like celebrating the Holocaust, a Melbourne politician said as her council scrapped a holiday it deemed offensive to Aboriginal people, in a move the government on Thursday labelled 'extreme and divisive'.

The council in the Melbourne suburb of Moreland became the third in Victoria state to decide not to recognise Australia Day.

The annual holiday, on January 26, commemorates the arrival of the country's first British settlers in 1788 and is a time when citizenship ceremonies are held....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4882838/Another-town-scraps-Australia-Day-drawing-government-ire.html