{"id":166851,"date":"2025-01-14T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T03:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=166851"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T03:36:56","slug":"councillor-outlines-plans-to-instill-national-pride-back-into-geelong-for-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=166851","title":{"rendered":"Councillor outlines plans to instill \u2018national pride\u2019 back into Geelong for Australia Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Geelong councillor of the Hamlyn Heights Ward, Eddy Kontelj, has outlined his plans to reinstate Australia Day celebrations on January 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Greater Geelong will not celebrate the national day for the second year in a row, with councillor Kontelj leading the charge to bring the celebrations back into the city from 2026 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019d like to do is use council as a platform to instill national pride back into our city and back into the community,\u201d he told Heidi Murphy on&nbsp;<em>3AW Mornings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear his plans to celebrate Australia Day in Geelong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Councillor outlines plans to instill &#039;national pride&#039; back into Geelong for Australia Day!\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/councillor-outlines-plans-to-instill-national-prid\/embed#?secret=f4RBiZhzDf\" data-secret=\"f4RBiZhzDf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not before time I would say how outrageous it has been to have these celebrations taken away from us all by the minority left dummies who think they can speak for entire communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not before time I would say how outrageous it has been to have these celebrations taken away from us all by the minority left dummies who think they can speak for entire communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":166852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[8054,4598,8],"class_list":["post-166851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-3aw","tag-geelong","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166853,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166851\/revisions\/166853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}