Sources: The Courier-Mail (Brisbane) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Attorney-General of the government of the Australian state of Queensland, Jarrod Bleijie, has confirmed that the amendment of the Queensland state public holidays legislation which would see the return of the Queen's Birthday public holiday to its pre-2012 date, and a move of the Labor Day public holiday to October, would take effect in 2013. [full story]