Public holidays

Holiday	2019	2020	2021
New Year's Day	Tuesday 1 January	Wednesday 1 January	Friday 1 January
Australia Day	Monday 28 January³	Monday 27 January³	Tuesday 26 January
Good Friday	Friday 19 April	Friday 10 April	Friday 2 April
The day after Good Friday	Saturday 20 April	Saturday 11 April	Saturday 3 April
Easter Sunday	Sunday 21 April⁵	Sunday 12 April⁵	Sunday 4 April⁵
Easter Monday	Monday 22 April	Monday 13 April	Monday 5 April
Anzac Day	Thursday 25 April	Saturday 25 April	Monday 26 April
Labour Day	Monday 6 May⁴	Monday 4 May⁴	Monday 3 May⁴
Royal Queensland Show (Brisbane area only)¹Other show holidays	Wednesday 14 August	Show holiday moved to Friday 14 August 2020 for one year only⁷	Wednesday 11 August
2020 People’s long weekend⁷ only in the following areas: Brisbane; Burdekin; Charters Towers; Cloncurry; Gold Coast; Livingstone; Logan; Mackay; Rockhampton; Weipa Town Area; and Whitsunday (Bowen area only)		Friday 14 August⁷
Queen’s Birthday	Monday 7 October⁴	Monday 5 October⁴	Monday 4 October⁴
Christmas Eve (24 December) 6pm – midnight	Tuesday 24 December⁶	Thursday 24 December⁶	Friday 24 December⁶
Christmas Day	Wednesday 25 December	Friday 25 December	Saturday 25 December and Monday 27 December²
Boxing Day	Thursday 26 December	Saturday 26 December and Monday 28 December²	Sunday 26 December and Tuesday 28 December²

The Royal National Agricultural (RNA) Show Day (Brisbane only) is held on the Wednesday during the RNA Show period. The RNA Show commences on the first Friday in August, unless the first Friday is prior to 5 August, then it commences on the second Friday of August.
From Christmas Day 2011, the Holidays Act 1983 provides for an extra public holiday to be added when Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day falls on a weekend.
Australia Day public holiday – if 26 January is a Saturday or Sunday, the public holiday is to be observed on the following Monday.
Labour Day public holiday is to be observed on the first Monday in May and the Birthday of the Sovereign (Queen’s Birthday) public holiday is to be observed on the first Monday in October. These arrangements have been in place since 2016 following amendments to the Holidays Act 1983 (passed by Parliament on 13 October 2015).
Easter Sunday is appointed as a public holiday. These arrangements have been in place since 2017 following amendments to the Holidays Act 1983 (passed by Parliament on 1 December 2016).
From 2019, the Holidays Act 1983 provides for a part-day public holiday from 6pm to midnight on Christmas Eve (24 December).
For 2020 only, a public holiday has been appointed in place of previously appointed show public holidays in certain areas of the State.

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