Celebrating Australia Day on the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet "celebrates illegal occupation", an Aboriginal community leader says.

Yuendumu leader and Warlpiri researcher Simon Japangardi Fisher is one of three Aboriginal leaders in remote Central Australia, and said their people wouldn't be doing anything on Australia Day, as they shared their thoughts about whether the date should be changed.

"The foundations of Australia are not working for my people. I feel offended, ashamed: neglect, genocide," Mr Fisher said.

Lance McDonald is a Luritja man, whose background includes Warlpiri and Pitjantjara, and he speaks nine Indigenous languages.

He is the first Aboriginal man to translate the United Nations charter of Human Rights into Luritja.

He says no-one in his community celebrates January 26 because it's the anniversary of colonisation.

"They don't celebrate this Australian day, no-one celebrates," he said.

"All along the Territory, from the sea to the river, to the rocky country to the desert, no-one celebrates."

A long way from Botany Bay to the Tanami Desert

Simon Japangardi Fisher says January 26 "celebrates illegal occupation". ( ABC News: Emily Butcher )

Mr McDonald called on the Australian Government to listen to Aboriginal people to understand how they felt about the national day being celebrated on the anniversary of the First Fleet's arrival.

The Tanami Desert is a long way from Port Jackson.

"You government people there in the Parliament House, come out here to the desert and find the real heat," he said.

"They don't want to change the day, because it's the start of their grandparent's arrival.

"We want to change it cause we been here a long time before them. We know what's best for Australia.

"The Government doesn't want to work with us. They just sit in a fully flash air-conditioning."

'It's better not to dwell in the past'

Lance McDonald says his community won't celebrate Australia Day. ( ABC News: Ryan Scott-Young )

Mr McDonald said January 26 was the beginning of tragedy for Indigenous people.

"What happened in [Port Jackson] was the start of the violence in Australia," he said.

"So, everything that happened in the past, it flicks back on Aboriginal people not to celebrate January 26."

Internationally recognised artist Otto Sims wanted to change the date so the nation might move forward united, without debate or division.

He believed debates on social media caused more problems.

"Deep in my heart I feel that it's [better] not to dwell on the past but to work together as Australians," he said.

"While this happened back in 1700s, well it's now 2018, let's make Australia a better place.

"No debating, but working together how we can make this great land of Australia a unique place for all Australians."

Sims is proud of his culture, and said he hoped one day all accounts of Australia's history could be taught in schools.

"There's a dark history, people have to be aware of what happened," he said.

"I believe that we as a nation should work together in order to make the nation a better place."