Tasmania Reconciliation Council lends voice to change the date debate

By Jessica Willard
Updated January 22 2018 - 11:22am, first published 6:30am
COUNCIL: Reconciliation Tasmania co-chairs Bill Lawson with Fiona Hughes, who says she feels excluded by not being able to celebrate Australia Day as an Indigenous person. Picture: Paul Scambler.
COUNCIL: Reconciliation Tasmania co-chairs Bill Lawson with Fiona Hughes, who says she feels excluded by not being able to celebrate Australia Day as an Indigenous person. Picture: Paul Scambler.

Changing the date of Australia Day would be a “powerful gesture” according to Reconciliation Tasmania Aboriginal co-chair, Fiona Hughes. 

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