17 September: Australian Citizenship Day.
The Australian Citizenship Day was first celebrated in 2001, when the Australian Government chose the 17th of September as Australian Citizenship Day, being the anniversary of the renaming, in 1973, of the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 to the Australian Citizenship Act 1948.
The creation of this special day, was in response to a recommendation by the Australian Citizenship Council in their 2000 report “Australian Citizenship for a New Century“.
This followed a recommendation, from a proposal of the 1999 National Schools Constitutional Convention, that a citizenship day be established to allow all Australians to celebrate their Australian citizenship.