Sources: ABC News, News.com.au, and Australia public holidays. The State Government of New South Wales (NSW) is said to be considering a new state-wide public holiday to compensate for the recently announced decision by Federal Workplace Relations Minister, Julia Gillard, to deem industry-wide picnic days illegal under Labor's new workplace laws.Proposals for this new public holiday include making the day of Sydney's Autumn (horse) Race Festival a public holiday (similar to Victoria's Melbourne Cup Day), or making Easter Tuesday a public holiday (as is the case in Tasmania).
Currently, Picnic Day is an early August partial regional public holiday the states of NSW and NT. A similar Picnic Day public holiday, in the ACT, was cancelled in 2006 and replaced with the new Family and Community Day public holiday that occurs at the same time as Melbourne Cup Day.
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