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Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda jam Nyson down.

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Speaker 2: To the Jersey Demanda Ramas for the pub test, pulling

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Speaker 2: up a pew at the bar as Jessica Rowe filling

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Speaker 2: in for Amanda while she's away on assignment. And I

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Speaker 2: didn't think this would come up in July, but here

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Speaker 2: it is. Austral Day long weekend. Does it pass the

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Speaker 2: pub tip test? An opinion piece in the City Morning

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Speaker 2: Herald yesterday, why don't we do something uniquely Australian and

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Speaker 2: celebrate all that is good about Australians in our nation

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Speaker 2: over a long weekend in January. This happened in nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety when I first started in radio. The big thing

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Speaker 2: was we're going to move it away, We're going to

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Speaker 2: have it on the actual day. And then people say, well,

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Speaker 2: what happens Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday. It's going to

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Speaker 2: ruin the long weekend. So that was back in nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety nineteen ninety four it came an official thing. What

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Speaker 2: do you think moving it into a long weekend? Does

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Speaker 2: it pass the pub test?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: With the Australia Day thing, everyone wants to change the dates.

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Speaker 3: I think big to the date. Why don't we just

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Speaker 3: like Mother's Day, that day is always just the second

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Speaker 3: Sunday of you know, May, and then you've got Father's Day,

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Speaker 3: which is the second Sunday in September. So why don't

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Speaker 3: we just make Australia Day the last Monday of January

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Speaker 3: or the third Friday of January. Therefore the date always changes,

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Speaker 3: that the day never actually does and everyone gets a

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Speaker 3: long weekend.

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Speaker 4: Look, there's arguments for and again obviously that if we

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Speaker 4: keep changing everything to the work or for everybody who's offended,

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Speaker 4: nothing's ever going to make anyone happy. Someone's going to

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Speaker 4: be peeved about everything.

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Speaker 1: Australia Day should remain the day that we celebrated. It

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Speaker 1: should remain the twenty six Now, for those who want

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Speaker 1: to market differently, that is definitely their preroorative and their right,

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Speaker 1: because that is the freedom that you have. And if

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Speaker 1: it were put to a vote, I would be voting

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Speaker 1: to maintain Australia Day on the twenty sixth of January.

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Speaker 5: Pretty passionate about this. I think January twenty sixth should

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Speaker 5: be in public, hold open, it should be remembering to day,

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Speaker 5: and probably we should go to January first to Australia Day.

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Speaker 5: Who's we've become federation, so I think that's what it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'm passionate about it. We need a public holiday.

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Speaker 3: But it shouldn't be a day of celebration. It should

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Speaker 3: be a day of remembering.

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Speaker 2: Right here, we needed We need a public holiday, a

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Speaker 2: long weekend, of course we do.

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Speaker 1: But let's change the date. Thank you, Jess