Australia is, or so they think, reigned over by what poet Les Murray dubbed ‘the elite Revolution that rules unsullied by elections’. These are the university arts- or law-educated bourgeoisie who hold forth from their million-dollar terrace homes in inner Melbourne and Sydney. They vote for the Greens and when they want the opinion of the peasants, they’ll give it to them.
They know best, after all. And one thing they know with absolute certainty is that everyone wants to change the date of Australia Day.
Except that they don’t.
A special Roy Morgan SMS Poll on Australia Day, January 26, shows more than two-thirds of Australians (68.5%) now say the date should stay as ‘Australia Day’ – up 4.5% from a year ago. Only 31.5% (down 4.5%) say January 26 should be called ‘Invasion Day’.
Australians are more evenly split on keeping Australia Day on January 26 with 58.5% saying the date of Australia Day should stay the same while just over two-fifths, 41.5%, say the date should be moved – according to a special Roy Morgan SMS Poll conducted with an Australia-wide cross-section of 1,111 Australians aged 18+ from Wednesday January 17 – Friday January 19, 2024.
As with all such ‘progressive’ bullshit, women are the biggest suckers.
A large majority of men (67.5%) say the date of Australia Day ‘should not be moved’ and only 32.5% say the date ‘should be moved’. A razor-thin majority of women (50.5%) say the date of Australia Day ‘should be moved’ whereas 49.5% oppose moving the date.
Surprisingly, given their lifetime of indoctrination by left-wing female teachers, even a majority of young people back keeping Australia Day on 26 January.
That was in 2024. What about 2025? Is the non-stop bellowing and whining by the woke left paying off?
In the best possible way: a new poll shows that the increase of support for Australia Day in 2024 was not a one off.
A recent survey shows a significant swing towards Australians choosing to celebrate Australia Day on 26th January.
A 10% increase in support from the 18 to 24 demographic means that a majority in all age groups now back the day.
So, support for Australia Day on 26 January is not just growing: the growth in support is accelerating.
Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, discussed the survey results with Perth Live’s Oliver Peterson.
“We are a bit over being divided by these activists and the political correctness that comes with it,” he said.
We’re seeing something of a repeat of the Voice referendum: the elite on one side, the majority on the other. The more the elite bellow, whine, finger wag and lecture, the more they turn the majority away from them. As Barnaby Joyce said on national television yesterday, Australians are fed up with being lectured to by the elite.
“I think people are over having elites tell them how to run the country, deciding to make changes from an executive level,” Joyce said.
“People, who basically life has been very kind to, all of a sudden saying it’s in their remit to start suggesting changes to the date […] What we created, the most egalitarian nation on Earth.
“I think that’s absolutely worth celebrating and the more people try to get pushed around to change the date, the more they’re going to say, that’s the role of the Australian people at a referendum if you ever wanted to do it.”
The result, judging by the latest polling, would be an even more humiliating defeat than the Voice.
The Institute of Public Affairs’ annual poll of attitudes towards Australia Day found that 69 per cent of Australians agreed with the statement, “Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26”, The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.
Support was up six points from 2023, when 63 per cent supported the same statement. The Institute said support for the date was up in every age bracket, including the 18–24 age group.
Just like the referendum, too, the government is cluelessly deaf and blind to public opinion, with ears only for the tiny, clanging echo chamber of the left.
The Labor government has long said there are no plans to change the date, although [Minister for Support and Workplace Relations Murray Watt] briefly seemed to indicate otherwise when he [sic] Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce and Edwina Bartholomew for Hot Topics on Monday.
“We’re told 70 per cent of Aussies support Australia Day being on January 26. Surprising result too from young Aussies ... What do you think? Should the day stay or should the date change?” Bartholomew asked.
“No. I think the date should change Eddy. That’s exactly the position of the government,” he said, before correcting himself.
Watt tried to claim he meant to say ‘shouldn’t’. Somehow, I don’t think many Australian voters would believe him, any more than they believe Anthony Albanese’s promise to lower electricity prices.
