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Kingborough Council considers Australia Day awards shift
KINGBOROUGH Council will consider renaming its annual Australia Day Awards ceremony and moving the date from January 26.
A report prepared by council officers said January 26 may no longer be an appropriate date for the ceremony for a number of reasons “including the growing debate regarding the association of January 26 with not only the colonisation of Australia by Europeans, but with the dispossession of land and rights of Aboriginal people”.
The council will consider a recommendation to move the awards to May, to coincide with Volunteer Week …
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