I tend to disagree. The only people I know who use American date format pf mmm dd are either heavily influenced by American culture, media and other sourced like these, or are actually from a country which uses mmm dd date formats. The vernacular that I've experienced over 3 states and 5 cities on the east coast of Australia is "day month".

Anyway, as I said, I'm not here to argue with you. I feel as this thread is just detracting more and more from your point (which I agree with) that Australia day is not a day of celebration.. So how about we agree to disagree on the date format and move on.