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• Australia Day Live

  Australia Day Live is a national tribute to everything that is great about Australia and being Australian bringing together the Australian of the Year Awards and some of the hottest homegrown music talent in Australia. Australia Day Live is a free concert and open to all ages!

  An all star line up, of home grown talent, will rock the lawnns of Parliament House on Australia Day eve - Monday 25 January... More Details »

  

• Darling Harbour celebrations

  Get the whole family together for an incredible day of free entertainment around Cockle Bay from 11.30 am to 9pm including the official NSW Australia Day Spectacular.

  During the day there’ll be smiles all around at the ABC for Kids concert hosted by Playschool presenter Jay Laga’aia at Harbourside Amphitheatre and an exciting line--up of cultural music and dance performances on the Aquashell on Cockle Bay... More Details »
  

• Woggan ma gule - Morning Ceremony

  Taking place in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, overlooking Farm Cove, this area is considered an important meeting and ceremonial site to the Gadigal people that once lived around the harbour.  The ceremony site marks the original shoreline of the harbour and is close to a site where male initiation ceremonies were once conducted.

  Supported by Macquarie Group and Royal Botanic Gardens, the ceremony is created through artistic collaboration between indigenous elders, performers and artists of the Gadigal lands... More Details »

  

• Voyages Concert and Fireworks

  Be at Federation Square on the evening of Australia Day for a multicultural performance extravaganza.

  Now in its seventh year, Voyages promises two hours of song, dance and colour to be capped off with the family favourite Australia Day fireworks display.

  The Australia Day fireworks cap off a huge day of celebrations in Victoriaa with colour and flair... More Details »

  

• Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony

  On Australia Day 2009, more than 13,000 new Australian citizens made a public pledge of their commitment to Australia at citizenship ceremonies around the nation.

  Sixty of these new citizens were presented with their Certificate of Australian citizenship at the National Citizenship Ceremony by the Prime Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd MP.

  Australian Citizenship Place, commemorating 60 years of Australian Citizenship, was opened on Lake Burley Griffin on 26 January 2009 by the Governor-General of Australia Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC... More Details »