Proud Gulidjan man and current Australian Test squad member Scott Boland has shared his thoughts on Cricket Australia scheduling international Test cricket on January 26.

Boland's comments come following Cricket Australia's release of the international schedule for the 2023/24 Australian summer of cricket on Monday.

Although stating he would be prepared to play Test cricket on the contentious day, Boland said playing international cricket on the day is not "inclusive of everyone."

"It's a day of mourning for a lot of people. I'm not sure January 26 is the day that is inclusive of everyone," Boland told The Sydney Morning Herald.

"I still think I'd play. I don't think it's a day to celebrate."

The schedule sees day two of the second Test between Australian and the West Indies at the 'Gabba to be played on January 26, a match Boland could be selected for.

In acknowledging the broad complexities of scheduling international cricket, decisions not currently informed by players, Boland said he would be willing to participate in a conversation with Cricket Australia surrounding the appropriateness of Australian teams playing international home fixtures on the day.

"Maybe it's a bit of a broader discussion for other people," Boland said.

"Unfortunately it's not for players to decide when we play. CA sorts out the schedule.

"If they approached me and wanted to talk about it, I'd definitely like to talk to them."

Boland's comments come days after Ash Gardner shared her disappointment in Cricket Australia scheduling an international home fixture on January 26 for the second consecutive year.

The Australian women's team played Pakistan in a T20 international in Hobart on January 26 of this year, the timing of which Gardner criticised.

"Unfortunately this year the Australian women's cricket team has been schedule to play on the 26th of Jan which certainly doesn't sit well with me as an individual but also all the people I'm representing," Gardner said at the time.

"As a national team we have a platform to raise awareness about certain issues and I'm using this platform to hopefully help educate others on a journey to learn about the longest living culture in the world.

"For those who don't have a good understanding of what that day means, it was the beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession."

Following the release of the 2023/24 international home schedule, Gardner said she was perplexed by Cricket Australia's decision to again schedule international cricket on January 26.

"I just don't understand why this one day of the year – which is a day of mourning, which doesn't have a very good history of what happened on that day, that there needs to be cricket," Gardner said.

"I see sport as a celebration and entertainment and an event you want to go to. Why does there need to be something that represents something that's quite morbid?"

Current Australian opening batter Usman Khawaja also weighed in on the debate, suggesting more consideration about playing international cricket in Australia on January 26 was needed.

"I can only speak for myself. I don't have an issue with it," Khawaja said.

"But if First Nations people and if communities do, then I think we need to explore that and talk about it."

The Australian women's side opens the 2023/24 Australian summer of cricket with a T20 international series against the West Indies beginning October 1, whilst the men's side's first outing is a test match against Pakistan in Perth beginning December 14.