public holidays

Can You Think Of Any New Public Holidays Worth Celebrating?

2:44PM Jess McGuire | Western Australian radio fellow Tom Percy has just written a piece for The Sunday Times (and when I say “just”, I obviously mean “he wrote it on Sunday”) about long weekends, declaring a national rethink may be in order in regards to our public holidays. Now that the Queen’s Birthday weekend (aka the Grand Final weekend) is well behind us and we are long-weekend-free until Christmas, it might be time to contemplate whether we need to reassess our whole concept of the long weekend, or public holidays generally. Eeegads! Is Tom suggesting we scrap those deliciously lazy long weekends in favour of work? Sweet merciful heavens above, he is not… More »