The day begins at 8am with a Aussie Barbecue with "Breakfast On the Beach" provided by Narooma Surf Life Saving Club and the Narooma Lions International. 

After the big breakfast you can walk over to the grassed reserve area and relax as the Narooma community are celebrating with a ceremony at 10am and recognising some of our local community contributors. 

The Master of Ceremony Peter Bull from Narooma Rotary will introduce and welcome all locals and visitors to this wonderful part of the world. President of Narooma CWA Joanne King will explain the roots and formation of the Narooma Australia Day ceremony and John Glover OAM and Judy Glover, the 2013 Australian Citizen of the Year recipient, will talk about what Australia Day and living and contributing locally means to them.

The Narooma Community Choir is a combination of several local community choirs and they will get you upstanding for the National Anthem and raising the Australian flag by Narooma Primary School captains Piper Smith, Mikayla Morris and Tom Hodge.

Narooma High School student representative council members Carmen Andrews and Blair Ashworth will also address the crowd.

Then comes the moment that nominated locals are recognised, and for this year’s Narooma Citizen of the Year and in no particular order Steve Dobson, Merinda Antill, Laurelle Pacey, Kerry Markham and Vivienne Wood have been nominated.

For Young Citizen of the Year, Molly Wharfe and Ashliegh Avill have been nominated.

For Narooma Community Event of the Year, AWL Tailwaggers Walk, Narooma Summer Safety Expo-MND Ice Bucket Challenge and “I will Survive “ Breast Cancer Fundraiser have been nominated.

There will be a reflection and Prayer for Peace and the Narooma Community Choir will finalise formalities with all things happy to be here.

Assisting will be NuTech Sound and Visual, Narooma Surf Life Saving Club, Narooma Lions International, Narooma CWA, Quota, Narooma Rural Fire Service, Rotary International and AWL Eurobodalla, while the event is sponsored by Eurobodalla Shire Council.

The ceremony should only take one hour and the Narooma Australia Day Committee would like to remind everyone that as shade and chairs are limited to slip, slop, slap and also your own chair.

So come along and join us this Monday at Narooma Surf Beach from 8am.

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Eurobodalla Shire Council is encouraging residents and visitors to join in and celebrate at the fun events that will be happening across Eurobodalla.

In the afternoon, you can attend Eurobodalla Shire Council’s Australia Day Awards Presentation and Citizenship ceremony at the RSL Hall in Page Street Moruya, starting at 2.30pm.

At the ceremony, over 20 local residents will become Australian citizens and the 2015 Eurobodalla Australia Day awards will be presented.

The Eurobodalla Australia Day awards include Citizen of the Year, Young Citizen of the Year, Sports Achievement of the Year, Community Event of the Year Award the Jeff Britten Award for the Pursuit of Excellence.

This year, instead of having one Australia Day ambassador for the Eurobodalla, there will be distinguished local representatives attending each awards ceremony.

Geoff Rose, Member of the Order of Australia and retired Royal Australian Navy officer and Tuross resident, will give a speech about what it means to him to be an Australian at council’s awards presentation and Citizenship Ceremony in Moruya.

THIS Australia Day will see the launch of the 2015 Umbrellas of Bermagui, now in its second year.

Twenty local businesses have sponsored a 2.7 metre shade umbrella each of which has been hand decorated by 20 well-known artists.

Each sponsor and their artist have decided the decoration theme for their umbrella and no two will be the same!

The works of art will go on display for the first time between 11am and 3pm on Australia Day on the lawns in front of the Bermagui Country Club.

To add to the excitement of the launch, Mark Tonelli, Bega Valley Australia Day Ambassador, will attend from around 1.30pm.

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Mark, a former Olympian who represented Australia in the pool on the international scene for seven years, is also a renowned journalist, TV host, elite coach and motivational speaker.

The Bermagui Surf Club meanwhile will host the art@bermi exhibition over the Australia Day long weekend.

Local artist Margaret Kenny-Levick has taken her very last turned work, an ash bowl, and decorated it in a way she claims has never been done before.

Margaret’s work along with that of the other artists in the art@bermi group will be on show at the Bermagui Surf Club from 10am to 4pm from Friday to Monday this long weekend.

More information is on the web site https://sites.google.com/site/artatbermi