'Fashion police': Mayor slams government for citizenship ceremonies dress code

Thousands of new Australians will become citizens on Australia Day at ceremonies around the country.

Thousands of new Australians will become citizens on Australia Day at ceremonies around the country. Source: Getty

The government has written to a local council to ask for its Australia Day citizenship ceremony dress code.


A Sydney mayor has slammed the Morrison government for mandating a dress code at Australia Day citizenship ceremonies and said his council will not be enforcing the "ridiculous and authoritarian fashion diktat".

Inner West mayor Darcy Byrne made public a letter from the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs David Coleman on Thursday detailing the request.

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