I go to the Yarra Ranges Council October Elections with a commitment to support the retention of Australia Day 26th January as our National Day and reinstate the term Yarra Ranges Council Australia Day Awards.
I would like everyone to reflect on what Australia Day means to you. To me, it has always been a day to unite, celebrate, commemorate and forgive but above all to come together as one, to advance this wonderful country we're so very privileged to live in.
I strongly support Yarra Ranges Council continuing the celebration of Australia Day on the 26th of January. #ReflectRespectCelebrate.
Consider this, when the Nationality and Citizenship Act came into effect on the 26th of January, 1949, (the year before I was born) all of us - non-Indigenous and Indigenous - officially became Australian citizens.
Every 26th of January we continue to, and so we should, conduct Citizenship Ceremonies on behalf of the Federal Government to welcome our new Australian Citizens to our wonderful region and also we give thanks to our amazing Citizens with the presentation of Australia Day Awards, a term dropped this year.
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