Australia Day
noun
Aus·tra·lia Day
ȯ-ˈstrāl-yə- 
ä-,
ə-
: a national holiday in Australia commemorating the landing of the British at Sydney Cove in 1788 and observed on the Monday of or next following Jan. 26
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The sniping over Australia Day continued last week.
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Victoria Kim, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Wool traceability and sustainability have been at the heart of Campaign for Wool since its formation in 2010 on Jan. 26, Australia Day.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025
For many Indigenous Australians, who trace their lineage on the continent back 50,000 years and make up about 4% of the country’s population of 27 million, the Australia Day holiday is known as Invasion Day, symbolising the destruction of their cultures by European settlers.
—Reuters, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
It was supposed to open its doors for Australia Day on January 26, 1963.
—Michael Y. Park, Architectural Digest, 9 Dec. 2024
The second part is titled Fear is the Rider: Australia Day, based on a novel by Kenneth Cook (Wake in Fright), which was initially launched in the market by McDonagh in 2022.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
In those chambers, the colony invented the public holiday of Australia Day in 1994.
—Maggie Knight-Williams, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
Members of the Hewitt family pose on the forecourt during Australia Day Live 2024 at the Sydney Opera House on January 26, 2024 in Sydney, Australia.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 July 2024
In January, on the eve of Australia Day, an antipodean version of the Fourth of July, a bronze statue of Cook that had stood in Melbourne for more than a century was sawed off at the ankles.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
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Victoria Kim, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Wool traceability and sustainability have been at the heart of Campaign for Wool since its formation in 2010 on Jan. 26, Australia Day.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025
For many Indigenous Australians, who trace their lineage on the continent back 50,000 years and make up about 4% of the country’s population of 27 million, the Australia Day holiday is known as Invasion Day, symbolising the destruction of their cultures by European settlers.
—Reuters, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
It was supposed to open its doors for Australia Day on January 26, 1963.
—Michael Y. Park, Architectural Digest, 9 Dec. 2024
The second part is titled Fear is the Rider: Australia Day, based on a novel by Kenneth Cook (Wake in Fright), which was initially launched in the market by McDonagh in 2022.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
In those chambers, the colony invented the public holiday of Australia Day in 1994.
—Maggie Knight-Williams, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
Members of the Hewitt family pose on the forecourt during Australia Day Live 2024 at the Sydney Opera House on January 26, 2024 in Sydney, Australia.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 July 2024
In January, on the eve of Australia Day, an antipodean version of the Fourth of July, a bronze statue of Cook that had stood in Melbourne for more than a century was sawed off at the ankles.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
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“Australia Day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Australia%20Day. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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