00:00A warm welcome for the country's newest Australians.
00:14At Melbourne Town Hall, 150 people from 38 different nations took the Oath of Citizenship,
00:21grateful to now officially call Australia home.
00:26I'm so lucky to be part of this country. It's such an incredible feeling.
00:31Australia has given us everything. It has given us a lot of opportunities.
00:35People in Australia are amazing, super friendly, they're very easy going.
00:40It's really the people that make it feel like a home for me.
00:45Festivities and barbecues lit up across the state.
00:49While some preferred the traditional snag, others opted for a sweet treat and enjoying the day.
01:10But for Indigenous Victorians, it was a day for reflection.
01:13Thousands attended this dawn ceremony in Torquay.
01:19This is an opportunity to come together collectively in solidarity,
01:23to share the truth and the history of the nation that we all call home.
01:27While in Melbourne, Victoria's longest running Indigenous festival, Share the Spirits,
01:32marks the day in song, drawing crowds in the hundreds.
01:36While Australia Day means many things to many people,
01:39here it's become a celebration of Aboriginal culture and making the day their own.
01:44There is a lot of pain to come together and to be able to provide some joy through music.
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