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Australia Day is an established and significant day in the national calendar with 4 in 5 Australians seeing it as ‘more than a day off’ and over 16,000 people choosing [...]

Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January became established.

Sydney continued to be the centre of Australia Day spectacle and ceremony. The states and territories agreed to celebrate Australia Day in 1988 on 26 January, rather than [...]

Australians ceased to be British subjects. Advance Australia Fair replaced God Save the Queen as the national anthem.

The Commonwealth government established a National Australia Day Committee in Canberra to make future celebrations ‘truly national and Australia-wide’. It took over the coordinating role of the Federal [...]

The Australian blue ensign was designated the Australian national flag and given precedence over the Union Jack. The Australian red ensign was retained as the commercial shipping ensign. [...]

The Nationality and Citizenship Act created a symbolic Australian citizenship. Australians remained British subjects.