'Fashion police': Mayor slams government for citizenship ceremonies dress code

The government has written to a local council to ask for its Australia Day citizenship ceremony dress code.

Thousands of new Australians will become citizens on Australia Day at ceremonies around the country. Source: Getty

A Sydney mayor has slammed the Morrison government for mandating a dress code at Australia Day citizenship ceremonies and said his council will not be enforcing the "ridiculous and authoritarian fashion diktat".

Inner West mayor Darcy Byrne made public a letter from the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs David Coleman on Thursday detailing the request.

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