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Australia Day: Yarra Council considers move to rename day, move citizenship ceremony.
YARRA Council could rename Australia Day to “January 26” and dump its citizenship ceremony out of respect to Aboriginal Australians.

The council should drop all references to Australia Day to “acknowledge the pain and disconnection” felt by the Aboriginal community, according to an internal report released today.

In place of a citizenship ceremony it could hold an event marking indigenous genocide.

In a council survey, less than 50 per cent of respondents said the council should support the #changethedate campaign, while 28 per cent had never heard of it.

But the council will lobby the Federal Government to change the date and join the campaign on social media.

Yarra Councillor Stephen Jolly (https://twitter.com/stephenjolly99) said the report showed that the council took reconciliation seriously.