‘Beyond satire’: Cricket Australia receives backlash over Australia Day decision

Sky News host Caroline Di Russo has weighed in on Cricket Australia’s decision to scrap the term "Australia Day" at the upcoming Gabba Test. Cricket Australia announced it would avoid using the term at Brisbane's Gabba Test on Friday to acknowledge January 26 has different meanings to different people. A traditional Welcome to Country ceremony will be conducted on day one of the Test on Thursday, but the ground announcer will avoid the phrase "Australia Day". Ms Di Russo called the decision made by Cricket Australia “beyond satire”. “What I find just totally outrageous about this whole thing is that Cricket was a game that was brought to this country by the British,” she told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio. “So you’ve got Cricket Australia who is sitting on top of the colonist imperialist sport not wanting to use the word Australia because of connotations in relation to the first fleet landing in Australia. “I mean to me it is so ridiculous, it is beyond satire.”