Family First associates itself with this motion and I commend Hon. Shaoquett Moselmane for moving it.<\/p>\n
Harmony Day is celebrated annually on 21 March to coincide with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It promotes the simple, but important, notion that everyone belongs and recognises the most important of human rights principles, that is: all rights belong to all humans no matter their nationality, culture, race, or any other characteristics which define them as human beings.<\/p>\n
Many members have contributed to this debate, including the Hon. Helen Westwood, who developed a very important rationale for Harmony Day. I add two points that have not been previously mentioned. First, Parliament supports the work of Harmony Day. At the moment approximately 60 pieces of artwork celebrating various aspects of Harmony Day are hanging in the Parliament’s Fountain Court. I encourage all members to view those artworks to see how artists among our youth and children at our public schools have expressed their thoughts and beliefs about Harmony Day.<\/p>\n
Second, over the past few years on my visits to various public schools I have noticed that Harmony Day has a permanent place. It is often painted up in schoolyards. I am thinking particularly of Wyong public school, which I attended a week so ago, which has major Harmony Day features displayed in its library. I was pleased that the young indigenous people and their contributions to this land were also included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Family First associates itself with this motion and I commend Hon. Shaoquett Moselmane for moving it. Harmony Day is celebrated annually on 21 March to coincide with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It promotes the simple, but important, notion that everyone belongs and recognises the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}