The leader of the Daylight Saving party WA will move a motion in the Legislative Council asking for recognition that the date of Australia Day should be changed.

“It’s an issue that’s not going away,” Wilson Tucker told Oliver Peterson.

While he doesn’t have a different date in mind, he said it needs to be a “national discussion.”

The state government has no jurisdiction to change the date of Australia Day but Mr Tucker said this motion is more about sending a “signal to over east that WA is taking a more progressive stance on this issue.”

“We want to be on the right side of this issue on changing the date of Australia Day,” he said.

After witnessing the Black lives matter movement in the US, Mr Tucker warns similar could happen here over the date.

“I have seen what happens if you don’t reconcile the past with marginalised groups,” he said.

Mr Tucker will use the motion to call on the Premier to use his popularity to lobby the commonwealth government to make this change.

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