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 Nick Fredman wrote: 
> Very much related to campaigns against monuments to Cook and others is what> 
> is probably the highest profile current battle against reactionary
> tradition, the battle to de-recognise as "Australia Day" the date of Cook's
> landing, January 26. 

January 26 marks the arrival of the First Fleet, not Cook, of course.
When fighting over history we need to be careful to get the history right.
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