Bully wrote:Squawk wrote:Bully wrote:tony abbott will be pissed at the reason for the public holiday on monday (Labour day)...yes i know whats its for and its spelt different before anyone says anything, but im sure tony will love to call it LNP day or something
Labour Day here in SA is on October 1.
Do we really need a public holiday to celebrate the 8 hour day? (Or the Queen's birthday, Easter Saturday or Adelaide Cup Day?). We don't have a public holiday for Rememberance Day, for example.
South Australia 2012Mon, 02 Jan 2012 New Year's Day
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 Australia Day
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 Adelaide Cup
Fri, 06 Apr 2012 Good Friday Sat, 07 Apr 2012 Easter Saturday Mon, 09 Apr 2012 Easter Monday
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 Anzac Day
Mon, 11 Jun 2012 Queen’s Birthday Mon, 11 Jun 2012 Volunteer's Day
Mon, 01 Oct 2012 Labour Day
Tue, 25 Dec 2012 Christmas Day
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 Proclamation Day
im in Queensland mate, Labour day public holiday is monday next week here 7/5/12
and you odviously dont work part/full time as it seems your complaining about public holidays as if someone who works full time/part time and complains about being allowed to sit at home or have a day off and get FULL pay then something must be wrong. Why complain about having a day off and being paid for it without using annual leave or sick pay???
the fact is, we should have all these public holidays and also as you say, have public holidays for remeberance day etc. the more the better
Wow Bully - you must have been having a bad day!
I gathered you weren't in SA - you actually spooked me as I suddenly wondered if I didn't have to go to work, so I looked it up! Then I remembered our May public holiday for Adelaide Cup, was moved to March.
As for public holidays - i wasn't questioning the number of them, but querying the reasons for each of them. Eg I'd keep Volunteer's Day but retire the Queen's Birthday. I'd have Rememberance Day over Easter Saturday.
Thanks for the messages though - next time I need to know something about myself, it seems I only need to ask you!
Quote - "you odviously dont work part/full time as it seems your complaining about public holidays as if someone who works full time/part time and complains about being allowed to sit at home or have a day off and get FULL pay then something must be wrong. Why complain about having a day off and being paid for it without using annual leave or sick pay???"
Classic stuff
