Vow to reverse controversial Aus Day rule

News.com.au - 12/12
A senior Liberal MP has pledged to force local councils into holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day, overturning Labor-era reforms which allow for a three-day buffer on either side of January 26.

A senior Liberal MP has pledged to force local councils into holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day, overturning Labor-era reforms which allow for a three-day buffer on either side of January 26.

The comments come after the City of Wanneroo in Perth’s North, Adelaide’s City of Unley and the City of Greater Geelong council now considering reverting to holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day.

The Coalition’s immigration spokesman Dan Tehan said new citizens should have the opportunity to become Australians on “our national day,” and criticised Anthony Albanese for “trying to walk both sides of ...
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