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Even Gen Z wants to keep Australia Day date: poll

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Record numbers of Australians want to keep Australia Day on January 26. After a summer marked by anger and division following the Bondi killings, seven out of 10 people reject the call to change the date.

Support for January 26 has climbed steadily in the past three years in exclusive polls for this masthead conducted by Resolve Political Monitor. Only 47 per cent backed the date in January 2023, but 56 per cent supported it in January 2024, shortly after the failed Voice to parliament referendum.

Now, 68 per cent back the current national day despite the objections of Indigenous Australians to celebrating the nation on the day the first fleet arrived and colonisation began.

Opposition to moving Australia Day from January 26 is hardening: new research

David Lowe receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Deakin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.

Australians are deeply divided over whether January 26 is an appropriate day to celebrate Australia Day – and we are no longer debating it as much as doubling down in entrenched camps.

Over the past five years, we have tracked attitudes on whether Australia Day should continue to be celebrated on January 26 through the Deakin Contemporary History Survey.

The most striking result from our late 2025 wave is not a shift in overall opinion, but a hardening of opposition to changing the date. While the balance between those who support and those who oppose change has remained stable, fewer Australians are sitting in the middle. This means more are expressing strong disagreement with changing the date of Australia Day.

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