Happy Eight Hours Day, Labour Day and Commonwealth Day

[Dan Lambskin]

i was looking at my desk callender and noticed Down Under (and also UK and Canada) are celebrating the following hollidays today...so Happy:
Eight Hours Day (Australia -TAS)
Labour Day (Australia - VIC)
Commonwealth Day (Australia, Canada, NZ, UK)

any of you Aussies have an explanation for the different names for different regions?

[Snakes Gould]

also national nap day

[DbacksRback]

also national nap day

about to celebrate now

[AussieDodger]

The states of Australia do a lot of things differently.
Western Australia goes to Daylight Savings at a different time to everyone else, Queensland have Labour Day on the 4th of May, we all have different public holidays for our big horse races (WTF?). etc etc

It's called Commonwealth Day in New Zealand because Labour Day over there is actually at the end of October. Can't explain the Tasmanian one, but they're all freaks with two heads so who cares

BTW Australian Labour Day was actually yesterday

[CadensDad]

The states of Australia do a lot of things differently.
Western Australia goes to Daylight Savings at a different time to everyone else, Queensland have Labour Day on the 4th of May, we all have different public holidays for our big horse races (WTF?). etc etc

It's called Commonwealth Day in New Zealand because Labour Day over there is actually at the end of October. Can't explain the Tasmanian one, but they're all freaks with two heads so who cares

BTW Australian Labour Day was actually yesterday

Wow, thats a lot of different things for one country