This year Cricket Australia stopped using the term 'Australia Day' to promote matches, recognising that it's a day of mourning for a lot of Indigenous people. Munanjahli writer Dr Chelsea Watego joins us to talk about commemoration versus celebration, the complexity of history, and what progress might look like beyond platitudes.

This is The Final Word Season 9, Ep 18. Also this week, Sri Lanka's series against England wraps up, South Africa head to Pakistan for the first time in 13 years, and World Test Championship possibilities become slightly more clear.

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1.22 – James Ralston

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