Last Friday, the University of Western Australia Student Guild voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing the date of Australia Day and proposed to ban all future campus celebrations on January 26.
Just hours before the general meeting was to set to begin, the Western Australian Students Aboriginal Corporation (WASAC) had requested that the motion to join the #ChangeTheDate campaign be raised and discussed at the Guild Council meeting.
Even though the official submission date had closed the week earlier, the Guild allowed WASAC to put forward the motion that ‘Australia day should be moved to a more inclusive day’ because January 26 ‘is the day of dispossession of Indigenous culture and is a commemoration of deep loss.
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