{"id":50475,"date":"2021-03-04T14:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=50475"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:42:31","slug":"mitcham-council-is-officially-pushing-to-change-the-date-of-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/mitcham-council-is-officially-pushing-to-change-the-date-of-australia-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitcham Council Is Officially Pushing To Change The Date Of Australia Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitcham Council has voted to lobby for a change to the date of Australia Day but will continue to hold celebrations on 26 January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-and-will-podcast-4-march-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"David and Will podcast - 4 March 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Heather Holmes-Ross has told FIVEAA\u2019s Tony Pilkington:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe still really want to celebrate Australia as a nation, we just feel the date of 26 January &#8211; which brings sorrow to members of our community &#8211; is not the appropriate date.<\/p><p>\u201cWe are looking after our ratepayers as we should with our core services but we are also the closest level of government to our community and what we are hearing from members of our community is the inappropriateness of this date, so we are also letting other levels of government know that this is an issue that is happening in our community and they need to be aware of the issue.<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that we should be discussing because we all love this country and we all want to celebrate as a united nation\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be divisive\u2026 we\u2019ll continue to celebrate Australia Day we\u2019re just not happy with the date\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mitcham-FiveAA-Internet-2021-03-04-12-34-32.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>FIVEAA FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM &#8211; THURSDAY 4 MARCH &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F1128560950900657%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitcham Council has voted to lobby for a change to the date of Australia Day but will continue to hold celebrations on 26 January. Mayor Heather Holmes-Ross has told FIVEAA\u2019s Tony Pilkington: \u201cWe still really want to celebrate Australia as a nation, we just feel the date of 26 January &#8211; which brings sorrow to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,144],"tags":[245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-50475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jade-robran","category-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mitcham Council Is Officially Pushing To Change The Date Of Australia Day - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/mitcham-council-is-officially-pushing-to-change-the-date-of-australia-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mitcham Council Is Officially Pushing To Change The Date Of Australia Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mitcham Council has voted to lobby for a change to the date of Australia Day but will continue to hold celebrations on 26 January. 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