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The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal and India have the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week.
Public holidays function as non-working days, with workers generally receiving full paid leave independently of annual leave. Those working on public holidays receive additional penalty rates of pay. [1] Where they fall on a weekend, public holidays are generally declared in lieu for the following Monday.
The National Archives of Australia releases Cabinet documents from 2003 and 2004 which reveal the Howard Government avoiding disclosing it had sent Australian troops to the Middle East months before officially authorising the country's involvement in the Iraq War. [4] 2 January –
Labour Day is a public holiday in Australia on dates which vary between states and territories. In some states the date commemorates the Eight Hours Day march (see below). It is the first Monday in October in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia.
Canberra Day is a public holiday in Australia held annually on the second Monday in March in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the Jervis Bay Territory (JBT) to celebrate the official naming of Canberra. Canberra was named at a ceremony on 12 March 1913 by Lady Denman, the wife of the then Governor-General Lord Denman.
A regular annual Union Picnic Day or Trade Picnic Day was observed at Adelaide River [3] by railway employees working on the North Australia Railway. [4] The date of the first event is not known. The event included Public Works employees on some occasions. [5] [a] Between 1926 and 1935 a railway Picnic Day event was not held.
Australia Day is Australia's national day, marking the anniversary of Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet raising the British Union Jack at Sydney Cove in 1788. After the Federation of Australia on 1 January 1901, the official recognition and dates of Australia Day and its corresponding holidays emerged gradually and changed many times.
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour. [2]