Western Australians could see a realignment of public holidays to coincide with the east coast and have an additional public ...

If you are planning your next trip away, timing it with one of the many public holidays Australia enjoys is a great move. In 2025, Aussies can expect more than a few long weekends, courtesy of a ...

Australia's Fair Work Ombudsman has shared the country's list of public holidays for 2025, according to state and territory. Employers are required to pay employees at least their base pay rate for ...

Australia should have more communal public holidays that celebrate values everyone has a stake ... space to celebrate the important events in their culture or religion’s calendar? One idea is to give ...

Premier Roger Cook said changes to the public holiday regime could take place as early as next year, but were more likely for ...

Work has started on a shake-up of WA’s public holiday calendar, Premier Roger Cook has revealed, as he indicated a ...

Picture: Damian Shaw/NCA NewsWire The institute argues adding more public holidays to Australia’s annual calendar would reframe the country’s reputation as a “Western outpost on the edge of ...

There’s a lot to love about Easter in Australia – a four-day long weekend with two public holidays, endless buckets of chocolate eggs, warm hot cross buns, and of course, a visit from our ...

and then you'd find the whole calendar is just full of holidays," he said. "It's not appropriate for the Australian economy." Rather than a public holiday, Mr Town said Australia should promote ...

The annual festival of lights, which falls this year on October 31, is the most important holiday in the Hindu calendar. There have been calls for a number of years for Australia to recognise more ...

Credit: Kim (Ya-Ju) Sung On a tiny dot perched 1550km north-west of Australia ... calendar which falls this year on 10 February, is so widely embraced on the island that two public holidays ...