WHILE it may have been a little wet for a barbecue this week, new Australian citizens were still being encouraged to do something to celebrate being “Aussie”.
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More than 20 people from across Scotland, India, United Kingdom, South Africa, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the Soviet Union were officially declared Australians by Wodonga mayor Rod Wangman at a ceremony on Thursday.
Jasneet Kaur was one of those people proudly singing the national anthem with one-year-old daughter Agamjot Kaur and husband Gurdial Singh in tow.
They both left India in search of a better life, but it was Australia where Ms Kaur and Mr Singh fell in love.
They met at Cambridge International College in Melbourne soon after Ms Kaur arrived in the country in 2008.
It has been a long journey for Ms Kaur to gain Australian citizenship – Mr Singh is hopefully officially a citizen next year.
“We have decided to live here for the rest of our lives and we want to be part of the Australian family,” she said.
Mr Singh said people in Australia were equal.
“Laws for everybody are the same,” he said.
Ms Kaur now has hopes of studying dental assisting next year.
