Published: January 16, 2019
'I can't separate the 26th of January from the fact that my brothers are more likely to go to jail than they are to go to school', says new Today Show host Brooke Boney. Boney is Channel Nine breakfast TV's first Indigenous presenter. ‘This is the best country in the world … I have almost more reason than anyone else to love this country,’ she says, adding that 26 January represents the beginning of a dark turning point for Indigenous Australians. ‘For me it’s a difficult day and I don’t want to celebrate it’. Boney suggests changing Australia Day to ‘a day that suits more people’ which 'will probably be more uniting’
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