Hundreds filled Shepparton's Queen's Gardens for the annual celebration that is Australia Day.

Some 40 people collected their certificates that designated them as new to the Australian fold and they, along with others in the crowd, listened as the Australia Day ambassador, Ann Peacock, who took them on a nostalgic and positive journey about life in Australia.

Considered through the climate crisis prism, Australia Day is about more of what has taken us deep into the climate crisis - it's about business as usual.

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