{"id":890643,"date":"2026-09-13T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890643\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:28:17","slug":"melissa-doyle-appointed-chair-of-australia-day-council-by-prime-minister-anthony-albanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890643\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Doyle appointed chair of Australia Day Council by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven\u2019s Melissa Doyle has been appointed as the new chair of the Australia Day<\/a> Council, taking over from musician John Foreman to oversee nationwide celebrations and the Australian of the Year Awards.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese<\/a> announced the appointment, placing one of Australia\u2019s most trusted broadcasters at the helm of the nation\u2019s story.<\/p>\n

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Melissa Doyle appointed Australia Day council chair<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor decades, Australians have trusted Mel to tell Australia\u2019s stories, and now she will take that to the next level in the national interest,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n

Doyle helped Australia wake up for more than a decade as a television host, but there\u2019s always been more to her than the trusted face on TV. She has been involved in fundraising, writing and serving the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to share more stories with everybody of who the people are that make us feel incredibly proud,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m humbled, I\u2019m daunted, I\u2019m excited, every single emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a day not without controversy. The Prime Minister is saying the date won\u2019t change, and as for local councils refusing to hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26, Doyle said those are conversations she would happily have.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that those individual ones are up to them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The government says the number of funded Australia Day events is growing, with 824 across the country. Doyle won\u2019t get to them all, but she\u2019s in the job for the next three years.<\/p>\n

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