{"id":355645,"date":"2026-01-26T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=355645"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:06:06","slug":"record-majority-of-australians-support-january-26-as-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=355645","title":{"rendered":"Record Majority of Australians Support January 26 as Australia Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Resolve Political Monitor survey from January 12-16 shows 68% of Australians favor keeping Australia Day on the traditional date, up from 47% in 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Support spans ages, with 55% of 18- to 34-year-olds and even higher among younger groups in separate polls backing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While critics like councillor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=ahmed-ouf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Ahmed Ouf\">Ahmed Ouf<\/a> call the date the start of catastrophe and ABC satire draws fire for historical claims, pro-celebration voices emphasize unity, with events like Brisbane&#8217;s march going ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support spans ages, with 55% of 18- to 34-year-olds and even higher among younger groups in separate polls backing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":355646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[19368,997,987],"class_list":["post-355645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-ahmed-ouf","tag-australia-day","tag-brisbane"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355647,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355645\/revisions\/355647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}