As it happens, 2008 was also the first year that a welcome to Country ceremony was performed as part of the opening of federal parliament. It is around these ceremonies that the Coalition ...

The ceremony will have to reconcile entertaining an ever-declining TV audience with being sensitive to the challenges currently faced by the event’s host city, while also managing the ...

In November 2022, in response to the ongoing humanitarian and security crisis in Haiti, UNHCR called upon States to suspend forced returns to the country out of concern that people sent back to Haiti ...

Days earlier, with a federal election coming, Peter Dutton’s Coalition had pledged to wind back spending on the ceremonies if it formed government. As the Coalition takes aim at what it calls ...

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When a place of work is to be blessed, both those who labor there and those who share the fruit of that labor should be invited to the ceremony. All make the Sign of the Cross. The leader begins ...

Are the Oscars still happening after California wildfires? The ceremony will still take place on March 2 as planned, but some dates for the nominations and other related events were changed in ...