- Pauline Hanson has weighed into the debate about moving Australia Day
- She likened the idea of changing the public holiday to renaming a stadium
- ‘… Australia Day will always be Australia Day,’ she wrote on her Facebook page
- Malcolm Turnbull says he’s ‘disappointed’ in those wanting shift from January 26
- Greens’ Richard Di Natale says the date has been ‘painful and divisive’
Pauline Hanson has weighed into the debate about moving Australia Day, likening the idea of changing the public holiday to renaming a stadium.
The One Nation leader said the idea of shifting the national day from January 26 to another day to appease left-wing activists was ‘rewriting history’.
She likened the symbolic gesture, proposed by the Greens, to the renaming of Brisbane’s old Lang Park Stadium and Queensland’s Bruce Highway.
Pauline Hanson (pictured) has weighed into the debate about moving Australia Day
‘… Australia Day will always be Australia Day,’ she wrote in a post on her Facebook page
‘The Bruce Highway will always be the Bruce Highway to me, not this new Pacific Coast Way they’ve changed the signage to,’ she told her 219,000 Facebook followers on Tuesday.
‘Lang Park will always be Lang Park, not Suncorp Stadium.
‘And Australia Day will always be Australia Day.’
Senator Hanson’s intervention in the Australia Day debate comes a day after Greens leader Richard Di Natale likened the arrival of British First Fleet in Sydney Harbour, in January 1788, to ‘genocide’.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott on Monday tweeted there were ‘364 other days’ for the Greens to be ‘politically correct’.
The debate about moving Australia Day has also coincided with former Labor leader Mark Latham making a campaign video with indigenous Alice Springs town councillor Jacinta Price to ‘Save the Date’.
The One Nation leader likened the idea of changing the public holiday to renaming a stadium
Malcolm Turnbull says he’s ‘disappointed’ in those wanting shift from January 26