Planting the Flag for October Ninth

On further reflection since my previous post on this subject, I have decided that Australia's national day should be moved to the date of the adoption of the Statute of Westminster in 1942, the circumstances of which were laid out in the relevant Wikipedia article that I quoted in that post:

The immediate prompt for the adoption of the Statute of Westminster was the death sentence imposed on two homosexual Australian sailors for the murder of their crewmate committed on HMAS Australia in 1942. Since 7 November 1939, the Royal Australian Navy had operated subject to British imperial law, under which the two men were sentenced to death. It was argued that this would not have been their sentence if Australian law had applied, but the only way for the Australian government to get the sentences altered was by directly petitioning the King, who commuted them to life imprisonment. Adopting the Statute of Westminster, so that Australia became able to amend applicable imperial law, avoided a potential repetition of this situation. The men's sentences were later further reduced.

As I remarked to a friend during the most recent appearance of this stupid debate, if we make this the date we celebrate as the founding of our nation, the commemorative statues will be fucking wild.