The NRL season opens in the first week of March, and the AFL season follows in the second half of the month. March 2026 carries the opening rounds of both national football codes, alongside Melbourne's Moomba festival, which runs across the Victorian Labour Day long weekend each year, drawing large crowds to the city's parks and river precinct. Autumn officially begins on 1 March, bringing shorter days to the southern states through the rest of March.
March closes the first calendar quarter of 2026 on 31 March and sits in the ninth month of the financial year's run to 30 June. Quarterly reporting cycles reset at the end of March 2026 for businesses using the standard calendar year, while financial-year reporting continues uninterrupted toward its own June close three months later. Labour Day applies only in Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania during March, on different Mondays in each.
March 2026 runs to 31 days and closes the first calendar quarter of 2026, three months into the 365-day year. The financial year that began the previous July moves into its final quarter after March ends, with three months remaining before the 30 June close and the new financial year that follows it. Autumn officially begins on 1 March, bringing shorter days to the southern states through the rest of March.
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