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“Enough is enough”: The businesses going further than an Australia Day boycott

This year, these small businesses are going beyond boycotting Australia Day, and focusing on remembrance and mourning instead.
Eve Preston
An Eve Studio yoga class. Source: supplied.

More and more businesses are turning their backs on the January 26 public holiday, and offering their staff another day off.

But, this year, some businesses are taking things a little further by acknowledging a day of mourning and remembrance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Eve Studio is a yoga and fitness business with locations in Brunswick and Preston, Melbourne.

In the past, founder Annie Carter and her team have simply run an alternative timetable on the public holiday, she tells SmartCompany.

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