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Citizenship Role Stripped from City of Yarra The Hon Alex Hawke MP Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection MEDIA RELEASE 16 August 2017 Citizenship role stripped from City of Yarra The Turnbull Government moved today to safeguard the integrity of citizenship ceremonies in the City of Yarra. The Melbourne local authority will be stripped of its power to hold any citizenship ceremonies following its political resolution which cancelled Australia Day citizenship formalities. The Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Alex Hawke today issued a new instrument under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 which removes the ability of office holders at the City of Yarra Council to receive a pledge of commitment at a citizenship ceremony. The Government had already issued a warning to Yarra Council that such an action would be viewed by the Government as a significant breach of the Australian Citizenship Ceremonies Code (‘the Code’). The Commonwealth now will ensure prospective citizens with the City of Yarra are allocated to citizenship ceremonies held by neighbouring councils while the Department of Immigration and Border Protection will hold ceremonies within the City of Yarra as demand requires, including on Australia Day next year. Mr Hawke said today the Turnbull Government would not tolerate Yarra Council’s use of citizenship ceremonies as a political device in a campaign against Australia Day being celebrated on January 26. “We are committed to ensuring that citizenship is treated in the ‘non-commercial, apolitical, bipartisan and secular manner’ which the Code mandates,” Mr Hawke said. “The instrument I have signed today means there will be no more citizenship ceremonies conducted by the City of Yarra on behalf of the Government.” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today expressed his deep disappointment at the Yarra Council decision. 1 www.minister.border.gov.au/alexhawke “On Australia Day, we celebrate what’s great about our wonderful nation. An attack on Australia Day is a repudiation of the values the day celebrates: freedom, a fair go, mateship and diversity,” he said. “Yarra council is using a day that should unite Australians to divide Australians. “I recognise Australia Day and its history is complex for many indigenous Australians, but the overwhelming majority of Australians believe the 26th of January is the day and should remain our national day,” Mr Turnbull said. Mr Hawke has also written today to Minister for Local Government and Territories Senator Fiona Nash, asking that the she examine the proportion of Commonwealth Government funding provided to Yarra Council for the purpose of conducting citizenship ceremonies, with a view to that funding being reconsidered following today’s revocation decision. “It is regrettable that Yarra Council has proceeded with this course of action. I note that other Councils, including Fremantle and Hobart made the sensible decision to comply with the Code rather than risk losing their ability to conduct citizenship ceremonies,” he said. “I am surprised and disappointed that the City of Yarra has chosen to pursue this divisive approach. “I would again like to thank the overwhelming number of local councils Australia wide which comply with the Code and conduct citizenship ceremonies that are non- commercial, apolitical, bipartisan and secular,” Mr Hawke said. Assistant Minister’s media contact: Lisa Scott 0466 434 257 2 www.minister.border.gov.au/alexhawke Mayoral Speech, Australia Day 2017 Councillor Kim Le Cerf, 26 January 2016 Sixty years ago today an important conversation started here in Darebin. We all need to be part of this conversation and it's time for us to act.#changethedate "As you know this is a very auspicious date in our national calendar – the day we celebrate the birth of modern Australia. It’s a date that has a big history, a complicated history, a history that we grapple with and we debate more and more as the years pass. It’s not something we put in our citizenship tests, but Australia Day, which marks the planting of the British Flag at Sydney Cove and the beginning of colonisation, is also a symbol of the unfinished business we have with our First Australians in this country. Right across Australia there is a national debate taking place about how we can make this anniversary an inclusive one, how we can use it to bring all the peoples of our country together, to heal the deep wounds we have inflicted on our indigenous people since we arrived as in invaders in 1788. And the City of Darebin has been playing its part in those debates for over 60 years. It was here, in Darebin, down at Batman Park, on Australia Day, 1957 that Aboriginal leader and activist, Sir Doug Nicholls, made his famous speech calling for the great gulf between White Australia and our First Australians to be bridged. Standing on stage, with the Mayor and City Councillors, Sir Doug spoke about the discrimination and the disadvantage that had plagued Aboriginal Australia since Europeans colonised their lands. Powerfully, he made the case that Australia’s First Peoples had been cast aside and forgotten by modern Australia. But he did not speak of recriminations or debts. This is what was so powerful about his speech. This is what captured the imagination of the crowd and helped to establish the reconciliation movement in this country – he asked only that we extend the hand of friendship. That we recognise our First Peoples, that we afford them the same chances and opportunities. What an incredible Australia Day they had here in Darebin 60 years ago. Well, I want to honour that tradition here today. I want to recognise that this wonderful ceremony takes place on Aboriginal land – land of the Wurundjeri – land that was never ceded. And as we extend the hand of friendship to you, our newest Australians, I want to reaffirm our pledge to work with our oldest Australians toward real recognition, real reconciliation, so that they too can feel fully and inseparably Australian. As a Council we have work to do to move towards this kind of reconciliation. In the spirt of Sir Doug’s speech, I want to extend the hand of friendship to local Elders and to say, we are listening. We have open hearts and we are ready to hear what we need to do to work towards healing. Maybe it will mean shifting the date on which we celebrate the nation – to a date that can be owned by our First Australians just as much as the rest of us. This is a conversation we need to have as a city and as citizens. Maybe it will mean other more practical actions – schemes for the restitution of indigenous land or for housing or scholarships. There are all kinds of things our Council can do, and I want to restart the conversation during my term as Mayor. But this is also a conversation that you, as citizens, can be part of. We all play a role in shaping and building a better Australia, in building a more just Australia. We all play a role in healing these wounds, building these bridges, righting the wrongs of our predecessors. As we look to the future and learn from our past, I put it to you that Australia will remain an unfinished project until true reconcilliation occurs. And it is this, the dedicated work of so many Australians to bridge gulfs, to right injustices, to break down barriers and come together as one people – this is what makes Australia worth celebrating. That is the Australia I celebrate today, and that is the Australia I want to welcome you to." Cr Kim Le Cerf, Mayor, Darebin Australia Day Citizenship Ceremony, 26 January 2017 Appendix C lEmiiNORTHCOTE Aboriginals Celebrate BUDGET Pastor lb* C.P.a. Mejbew fy twnwiiMi- h» ^ AustraliaDay NicholU Printed for the Proprietors bl' ^l-f***L Ltd., ot the Haod Office, 481 High St.. NorthcxHe, N.lo Northcote provided a v«ry large --------------B2f|ri«Y ■•<|«*'ies: JW6214 (Not Ckissifled) crowd to take part in the Australia Vol. 22; No. 4 WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30, Day cddbratkm arranged by abori ­ ginals and frioids on Sunday after­ THEY HELPED noon at Batman Park. The crowd soundly applauded Pastor D«>ug THE SPASTICS NichoDs when he suf^sted, as his theme, that A group of children The Bazaar was or­ ganised by Patrivia the bridge between white and aboriginal inhabi- has raised £6 for the McBride and Rosemary tanU should be bridged. 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