Melbourne Metropolis Council is contemplating ditching its Australia Day celebrations on January 26.
Councillors final evening voted to carry a evaluate into how the council will mark January 26 in future, with strategies its Australia Day live performance, fireworks, citizenship ceremonies and different Australia Day actions be moved to a different date or cancelled.
Lord Mayor Sally Capp informed At present the council has chosen to be be proactive about altering public sentiments round Australia Day.
"This kicks off a course of to higher perceive what are our native constituents and conventional house owners suppose we ought to be doing on the twenty sixth of January," she mentioned.
"It's a divisive and delicate challenge however sentiments have been altering and I believe it is vital that we're concerned on this debate.
"That is round how will we construct extra unity in that sense of satisfaction and celebration to what it means to be Australian."
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Australia Day has been a nationwide public vacation since 1994.