Last Friday the 16th of September, an Australian Citizenship Ceremony was held at the Gladstone Entertainment and Convention Centre. The ceremony was the largest ever in Gladstone, with 93 new Australian citizens taking their final steps to become official citizens.
The national day was launched in 2001 to raise community awareness of Australian citizenship, provide a day for citizenship-related activities and celebrations, and to offer a time to reflect on being Australian. An application for citizenship takes several months and the citizenship ceremony signifies finalisation of this process.
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