Queen's Holiday: Move it - but make it Melbourne Cup Day!

Whoever in the Queensland Government dreamt up the idea of moving the Queen's Birthday holiday from June to the second half of the year, deserves an OBE - oops, an OA.

After New Year's Day, the first half of the year is littered with public holidays including Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Labor Day and for many communities - a Show Holiday.

In the second half of the year, southeast Queensland has the annual August public holiday for the Brisbane Exhibition and then nothing until Christmas.

But why celebrate the Queen's Birthday anyway which is not even in June but on April 21?

Britain does not have a public holiday for the Queen's Birthday, yet her precious dominions 10,000km celebrate it annually - not for any fervour for the Queen of England but as another day off for workers and their families.

The Australian Queen's Birthday holiday should be scrapped altogether and replaced by a holiday on the first Tuesday in November - the day of the Melbourne Cup.

They already have a public holiday in Victoria for the Melbourne Cup.

Just imagine a Melbourne Cup public holiday in Queensland!

People would throng to racecourses and TABs. Local communities would have get togethers, BBQs and other events which would rival the days of an afternoon Rugby League Grand Final.

And a true sense of national pride would be instilled in Queenslanders as we celebrate a public holiday for the race which stops the nation.


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