{"id":133631,"date":"2016-01-26T23:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=133631"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T01:40:31","slug":"gday-on-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/01\/26\/gday-on-australia-day\/","title":{"rendered":"G&#8217;Day On Australia Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_133632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133632\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016adawards-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-133632\" title=\"2016 Australia Day Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016adawards-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016adawards-05.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016adawards-05-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Wayne Kratzmann presents Beena Zala with her Australian Citizenship Certificate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>January 26, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A highlight of this year&#8217;s South Burnett Australia Day Awards ceremony at Proston was the welcome received by a new Australian citizen into the local community.<\/p>\n<p>Before the presentation of region&#8217;s 2016 awards, Mayor Wayne Kratzmann conducted a Citizenship Ceremony in front of the capacity crowd that filled the Proston Community Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony welcomed Beenaben Chatursinh Zala, wife of Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council CFO Zala Chatursinh, to the Australian community.<\/p>\n<p>Beena swore the Oath Of Allegiance in front of the crowd, her husband and twin 17-month-old children Kunj and Krish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From this time forward, I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She was then pronounced the South Burnett&#8217;s latest citizen by Mayor Wayne Kratzmann and handed her Citizenship Certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Kratzmann said he thought Beena couldn&#8217;t have chosen a more appropriate time to become an Australian citizen than the eve of Australia Day, and congratulated her on her decision.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133633\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016adawards-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-133633\" title=\"2016 Australia Day Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016adawards-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016adawards-02.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016adawards-02-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beena and Zala Chatursinh with their twins Kunj and Krish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highlight of this year&#8217;s South Burnett Australia Day Awards ceremony at Proston was the welcome received by a new Australian citizen into the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[1135,1131],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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