Holiday Calendar for Australia in DecemberAustralians tend to embrace their environment proudly. Aboriginal and contemporary Australian cultures share an understanding of the importance of plant and animal life to the nation. Australian traditions, notable events, festivals, special days and national holidays in Australia Help us National traditions, public holidays and notable observances for 2024-2025 yearDecember 2024Sunday 22 December - Commonwealth Bank Day (CBA is Australia's leading provider of integrated financial services) Thursday 26 December - Boxing day in Australia (also Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Great Britain, New Zealand, Canada, Kiribati, Nauru, Botswana, Ghana, Jamaica) Saturday 28 December - Proclamation Day (South Australia, celebration started on the day following Christmas) January 2025Sunday 5 January - Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane) Sunday 26 January - Australia Day (Millions of listeners tune in annually on Australia Day to the Triple J Hottest 100 to find out which song has been voted number one); Cockroach Racing In Australia (The event features 14 different types of races, which also includes a steeple chase race) February 2025Wednesday 26 February - For Pete's Sake Day (if there’s a Pete in your life, why not do something for his sake?) March 2025Monday 10 March - Canberra Day (Australian Capital Territory; celebrated on the second Monday in March); Labor Day in Victoria and Tasmania, Australia (is celebrated on the second Monday in March) Tuesday 18 March - Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia) Thursday 27 March - International Myeloma Action Day (Held on the last Thursday of March) April 2025Thursday 24 April - Kapyong Day (Australia, Canada, New Zealand) Friday 25 April - Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Western Samoa. It commemorates the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - ANZAC - on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915) Sunday 27 April - Game Designers' Day; International Sculpture Day (Held on the last Saturday of April) May 2025Saturday 3 May - National Secretary's Day in Australia (Celebrated on the first Friday of May); No Pants Day (It is held on the first Friday in May) Tuesday 6 May - Labor Day in the Northern Territory of Australia and Queensland (is celebrated on the first Monday of May) Monday 12 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe) Tuesday 20 May - National Volunteer Week in Australia (Held from Monday to the third full week of May) June 2025Tuesday 3 June - Mabo Day in Australia (It commemorates Eddie Koiki Mabo [c. 29 June 1936–21 January 1992] a Torres Strait Islander whose campaign for Indigenous land rights led to a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that, on 3 June 1992, overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius which had characterised Australian law with regards to land and title since the voyage of James Cook in 1770); Western Australia Day (celebrated on the first Monday in June) Tuesday 10 June - King’s Birthday in Australia (celebrated on the second Monday in June. Except Western Australia and Queensland) July 2025Tuesday 1 July - International Tartan Day (Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on 1 July, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan. Tartan Days typically have parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing and other Scottish-themed events) Wednesday 16 July - BHP Group Day (A resources mix for today and for the future) Friday 18 July - Hot Dog Day (United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. It has been celebrated since 1971, when students first proposed it. Hot Dog Day itself is usually the third Saturday in April, although many students celebrate the entire "hot dog week", running from that Wednesday to that Sunday. July 18 – based on when the North American Meat Institute hosts its annual Hot Dog Lunch on Capitol Hill.) Monday 28 July - National Tree Planting Day in Australia (celebrated on last Sunday in July) August 2025Sunday 3 August - Stephen (Discovery of the relic. Christian feast day) Monday 18 August - Australian Professional Engineers Day; Long Tan Day, also called Vietnam Veterans' Day (Australia) Thursday 21 August - Speech Pathology Week in Australia (2022, 21-27 August. Speech Pathology Week seeks to promote the speech pathology profession and the work done by speech pathologists with the more than 1.1 million Australians who have a communication or swallowing disorder that impacts on their daily life) September 2025Monday 1 September - Father's Day in Australia (also Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea is celebrated on the first Sunday of September); Wattle Day (Australia) Sunday 7 September - National Threatened Species Day (Australia) October 2025Sunday 5 October - International Day of No Prostitution (IDNP is an awareness day that was first observed in 2002. Locations at which IDNP was observed in its inaugural year included the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States and Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Tuesday 7 October - Labor Day in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia (is celebrated on the first Monday in October) Saturday 11 October - International Vet Nurse Day (Held on the second Friday of October) Wednesday 22 October - Wombat Day (Australia) Saturday 25 October - Teacher's Day in Australia (Celebrated on last Friday in October); National Bandanna Day in Australia (NBD is held on the last Friday of October each year) Monday 27 October - Australian Grandparents Day (Last Sunday of October); Australasian Sonographers Day November 2025Tuesday 11 November - Remembrance Day in United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada Monday 24 November - International Laksa Day in Darwin, Australia (Last Sunday in November) also about some Australian traditions
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