Local councils will be able to move citizenship ceremonies to a day near to Australia Day, in a major reversal of a Morrison government policy by the Albanese government.
Local councils will now be able to hold citizenship ceremonies on any date from January 23 to 29, rather than being obliged to hold the events on Australia Day .
Councils who made this move were stripped of the honour of holding citizenship ceremonies by the former Coalition government Immigration Minister Andrew Giles announced the change on Friday morning. It follows a string of councils in Melbourne signalling plans to move their Australia Day citizenship ceremonies away from January 26, which many Indigenous people consider a day of mourning.
“This is a pragmatic change that allows councils to hold Australian citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day, or on the three days before and after – from 23 to 29 January.”
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