Citizenship ceremonies will no longer be held on January 26 in the inner-north Melbourne council area after a bid by one councillor to overturn an earlier vote was dropped.
Merri-bek council is the third Melbourne municipality to stop holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day.to accept a recommendation from its First Nations advisory committee that it stop holding citizenship ceremonies on January 26.
“No other councillor chose to take that [the motion] up which means that the motion to rescind lapsed and the decision from December 7 stands,” a council spokeswoman said.he reluctantly put forward the motion to rescind to buy the council more time to lobby the federal government to remove a policy put in place in 2019 by then prime minister Scott Morrison that legally binds local councils to hold citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day.
Pressure is building on the federal government ahead of Australia Day, with Maribyrnong and Darebin council appealing to Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles for an exemption from the code. First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria co-chair Marcus Stewart, who is also part of the federal government’s referendum working group on the Indigenous Voice, backed calls for Giles to overturn the ruling.“Councils should be free to decide on what day they have citizenship ceremonies.”
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