All very low-key this year, and who knows if it will be celebrated at all in the years ahead, the way efforts are being ramped up to bring it down.
Still, it's a typical blazing hot blue sky like nowhere else in the world, the crickets are chirping and someone even had their mowers going this morning.
The radio is playing traditionally Aussie songs, like "True Blue" by John Williamson, and "I still call Australia Home" , by Peter Allan. "I Come From a Land Down Under", by Men at Work.
My favourite has always been "I am Australian", by the Seekers.
