Australia Day Family Fun Day 2026

On Australia Day we celebrate all the things we love about Australia: the great outdoors, a sense of fair go, lifestyle and the diversity of our great nation.

So join us at Shelley Foreshore for the City's Australia Day celebration on Monday 26 January 2026. This event is designed for the whole community with a strong doggy theme, so bring the family pooch, your friends and neighbours along for a morning to afternoon of fun by the river.

Our event will have more dog friendly activation's, stalls and fun than you can wag your tail at, as well as the pinnacle of every Canning dog owners calendar - the City of Canning's 'Puppy Parade'!!

This free to enter event is also smoke free, alcohol free, dog friendly (of course!) and wheelchair accessible.

EVENT ACTIVITIES 

👪 Citizenship Ceremony to kick off the event

❤️ Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony

🏆Community Citizen of the Year Awards

🐶 Our famous Puppy Parade - sign up pet in their best outfit at the stage before the deadline.

Prizes will be awarded!

🐾Doggy Caricaturist 

📸Dog friendly photo booth 

🐐Incredible Creatures animal farm

🌈 Kids Rainbow Mister

🌴Kids inflatable Big Kahuna Water Slide - ages 3yrs and up

🪶Make your own badge with Rossmoyne Shelley Scouts!

🦘Aussie themed silt-walkers

🏏Kids Sporting pop-ups

🎨Kids Aussie-themed craft activities

🖌️Kids face painting

🤫 Kids Quiet Tent for those that need some downtime.

🍔🍨 Plenty of food and beverage trucks and vendors

MAIN STAGE 🎙️

🦘9.00am Event Opens with Citizenship Ceremony led by Mayor Patrick Hall with a Welcome to Country

🔊10.00am Welcome and program run down

🔊10.10am Smoking ceremony

🔊10.30am Welcome from Mayor Patrick Hall

🎺10.35am Canning City Brass Band

🔊11.30am Auspire Ambassador

🏆11.35am Community Citizen of the Year Awards

🐾11.50am Puppy Parade Competition!!!!

🎤1.00pm Band 

🔊2.00pm Event Concludes, thanks for coming

FOOD TRUCKS & VENDORS

🍦Unicone Softserve

🍨Sub Zero Gelato

🍩OMG Donuts

🍟Satisfried Food Truck

🍚Peter’s Ca Phe

🥠T-Sisters Fresh Food

☕Beach Break Van

🧃Crush Juice Van

🌭Sausage Sizzle by the Riverton Scouts

🍛Spice Box

🫓Mr Goz

DOGGY STALL HOLDERS 🐶

🐾Frank's Barkery 

👀More to come...

City of Canning Puppy Parade

The Puppy Parade will start at 11:50am, come down to the stage between 10am – 11am to sign up your dog (or until full). Judges will decide on the the best pooch strutting down the ‘dog walk’.

🏅Prizes will include vouchers to the doggy stall holders and your local cafe!

FAQ

✔️ Plenty of onsite toilets available (including accessible)

✔️ Event site does have limited free car parking (including accessible)

✔️ Entry to the event and its activities are free (food trucks take Eftpos/cash)

✔️ Dogs are allowed on a lead at all times

✔️ We always have a large free water station at our events

✔️ For those in a wheelchair, path access comes off the car park near these bays. The event site has many pathways and will all for wheelchair usage.

✔️ This event will be AUSLAN intepreted.

✔️ Thanks to our supporters Plastic Free Riverpark program, our event will be using Go2Cup to replace food vendor single use plastics with reusable serve ware. Just take your plates, cups and cutlery back to the Go2Cup Station once you've finished eating. 

Getting here 

The event location does have free car parking either in the designated car park manned by our Parking Marshals or along the roadside in a marked bay, including ACROD. 

⚠️ It is important that attendees avoid parking on residential verges, across driveways and on footpaths ⚠️

Why not consider also carpooling, walking or riding your bike? 🚲🚶 We will have free bike racks onsite ready to use (bring your own bike lock)!

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