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Coach team gymnastics Australia’s 2012 Olympic Games, a former backpacker Canada from seeking a new life and a French scientists are among those who now call Australia home.
Peggy Liddick, Jean-Philippe Ral, and Jennifer see are three of the 27 new present day Aussies Australia National flag raising ceremony and citizenship in the edge of Lake Burley Griffin, in Canberra on Thursday.
They are in good company-Australia’s new-year-old actor Geoffrey Rush witnessed, while Australia Day Council Chairman Adam Gilchrist, Governor-general Quentin Bryce and Prime Minister Julia Gillard took part in the ceremony.
Mr. Gilchrist told the new citizens that Australia enjoyed the quality of life that is “second to none”.