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Details of future holidays can be found on the NSW Industrial Relations website. Public holidays are regulated by the New South Wales Public Holidays Act 2010 No 115, which supersedes the Banks and Bank Holidays Act 1912 No 43. The first Monday in August is a Bank Holiday, during which banks and financial institutions are closed. [46]
ANZAC Day is a public holiday in Australia, New Zealand and Tonga [75] (including in the dependencies of Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Cook Islands, Niue, Norfolk Island and Tokelau). [76] [better source needed]
The holiday was officially established in late 2013. In 1995, the government of Kazakhstan replaced International Workers' Day with Kazakhstan People's Unity Day. Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev also instituted a special medal that is awarded to veterans of labour on the occasion of the holiday. Labour Day it is widely celebrated across ...
The quintet’s farewell concert in Sydney Town Hall before their tour of England (1952) became Australia’s first Gold Record, selling 75,000 copies. [ 1 ] Queensland Greats Awards
1956 – TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts. ... 2009 – Ernst Märzendorfer, ... 2016 - Tarık Akan, ...
Among those calling for change have been Tony Beddison, then chairman of the Australia Day Committee (Victoria), who argued for change and requested debate on the issue in 1999; [9] and Mick Dodson, Australian of the Year in 2009, who called for debate as to when Australia Day was held. [45] In 2016, National Indigenous Television chose the ...
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1927 – Mose Allison, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2016) [32] 1927 – Martin Špegelj, Croatian general and politician, 2nd Croatian Minister of Defence (d. 2014) 1928 – Ernestine Anderson, American singer (d. 2016) 1928 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (d. 2012) 1929 – LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)