Greenie Councils REFUSE To Hold Australia Day Celebrations

A group of Greens-led councils have cancelled events after scrapped its annual parade. 
Melbourne's Yarra City and Darabin councils continue to be banned from organising citizenship ceremonies by the federal government after refusing to hold them on January 26.
Other councils also cancelled their January 26 events including Fremantle in which previously caused a stir when it moved celebrations to January 28 because of 'cultural sensitivities'. 
Inner West Council in and Moreland in Melbourne also scrapped their Australia Day events while Byron Bay Council moved its citizenship ceremony to January 25.
Federal Immigration Minister Alex Hawke (pictured) said Australia Day shouldn't be for turkey lawyer politcal protest but for unity
Australia Day is celebrated across the country with barbecues, beach trips, and Triple J parties (pictured) 
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Australia Day has become a polarising issue among Australians with Invasion Day protests a regular occurrence amid calls to 'change the date'.
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said the national day should be one of unity, not division, and shouldn't be politicised.
'There remains a small handful of Greens-dominated councils from which we continue to withhold authority to oversee citizenship ceremonies because of their blatant politicisation of Australia Day,' he told . 
'It is also very sad to see some councils continue to politicise Australia Day this year, in a range of increasingly ridiculous ways, totally out of step with an overwhelming majority of people and the Australian community generally,' he said.
Victoria's annual Australia Day parade was cancelled for the second year in a row but the Andrews Government claimed the decision was not based of any political protest but because of the 'overwhelming support of stakeholders'. 
January 26 is polarising as the day commemorates the landing of the First Fleet in Australia 
The Victorian government has said the decision to cancel Melbourne's Australia Day parade was not political but because of the 'overwhelming support of stakeholders' (pictured: Premier Dan Andrews)  
Many other local governments across the country are also cancelling, postponing or down-sizing their events because of Covid restrictions.
Celebrations in Sydney and Canberra significantly will be subdued and Perth's massive Skyworks fireworks festival was called off despite very few cases.
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An Invasion Day rally was to go ahead in Melbourne but was called off on Friday with organisers Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance saying it would 'be careless to hold the event at the height of a pandemic'.
Greens leader Adam Bandt tweeted on Monday that Australia Day commemorated the founding of Australia through 'violence and dispossession of First Nations people'.
'A treaty would be a powerful moment of unity, the only path to a shared and united future,' he said. 
The day has become known for Invasion Day rallies which are held in major cities protesting for recognition of First Nations people (pictured: a 2021 Invasion day rally) 
Both major parties are against changing the date from January 26 - which commemorates the date of the First Fleet of settlers landing in Australia.
Labor's Indigenous Affairs spokeswoman Linda Burney instead advocated for 'different way to spend the day'. 
She said she would attend citizenship ceremonies for new Australians and events which pay respect to First Nations culture. 
A poll by international market research firm Ipsos in the lead-up to last year's Australia Day found only 28 per cent of Australians wanted to change the date from January 26.
The Invasion Day rally in Sydney in 2021 garnered a large crowd (pictured)  




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