Australia Day 2024 in Maitland | Maitland Mercury | January 26, 2024 - video Dailymotion

Australia Day 2024 at Maitland Park and Maitland Town Hall. Video by Chloe Coleman

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:23 Lions Club for all of their work.

00:25 With that barbecue, if you haven't had a snag or two, head over there

00:29 and make sure you grab something.

00:31 Thank you to St John's Ambulance for coming along

00:33 and all the other providers that are here,

00:35 our fantastic council volunteers and our great staff who are out here

00:39 working on a public holiday in this heat to provide these things for you

00:43 because we know that Australia Day is important to celebrate for the people of Maitland

00:48 and it's great to have you all here.

00:50 [Music]

01:04 How are you today?

01:06 [Music]

01:22 [Singing]

01:30 [Singing]

01:56 [Singing]

02:06 Ladies and gentlemen, the Maitland Council Citizen of the Year 2023,

02:12 Dr Janice McDonnell.

02:14 [Applause]

02:30 Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Councillors and nominees,

02:35 and all nominees and all the categories and the winners.

02:40 I guess I'm just overwhelmed because I don't do anything for awards

02:45 and there are so many other people in Maitland who are doing so wonderful, wonderful jobs.

02:50 And Maitland is in really good hands with a wonderful community.

02:54 And thank you very, very much.

02:56 [Music]

03:13 Alright, photography in the back of the room everybody, please.

03:16 Photography.

03:19 Wipe into your photography.