Save Anzac day challenge
Most Australian state governments government quietly announced last year that if ANZAC day fell on a weekend then that day would be the officially gazetted public holiday. Not the following Monday. What this means is that for the majority of workers, the Monday to Friday 9-5 crowd ANZAC day is no longer a public holiday.
Thanks to the hush tactics the government NSW government employed to try and prop up their already flailing popularity the vast majority of the public have no idea and will probably not find out until an email is sent around the office a week before hand reminding (or informing) them of the fact. In fact most news papers were so embarassed that they didn’t pick up on the news they quietly released the announcement often months after. Buried on websites and the traditional papers.
Some people have said so what. ANZAC day isn’t meant to be a holiday it’s meant to be a day of rememberence and reflection and a holiday seems to suggest celebration. Well I say Australia doesn’t have enough public holidays and what better thing to do than to keep one we always assumed we had.
Whilst we could employ the usual tactics of writing a letter to our local representative, getting on tv to complain or even protesting on the streets there’s another method we could employ to silently and confidently show our disdain for taking away our public holiday.
“Take the Monday after ANZAC day off!”
Don’t pretend to be sick, make sure you take it as annual leave. You’ll both be making a silent protest by having zero productivity on that day and saving your employer money during these hard financial times this is important. Annual leave is a liability to companies and you may be costing your own job by not taking it.
If you take the day off on the 27th of April you can join those in the ACT and WA in a day of solemn rememberence, protest and relaxation. It is important that we don’t have our holiday or special day events eroded. Otherwise, next we’ll be losing out on Easter and Christmas because it doesn’t include other religions. Even though there’s no way we’ll add other days for these religions.
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