Labour Day falls on the first Monday of March in Western Australia and on the second Monday of March in Victoria and Tasmania. New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, the Northern Territory and the ACT do not hold a Labour Day public holiday in March at all, so the long weekend applies only in the three states that observe it on these dates.
Sport fixtures, markets and family events across Australia are concentrated on Saturdays more than any other day of the week. 21 March 2026 falls on Saturday, outside the standard working-day count used on this page, between the working week that ends on Friday and the one that begins the following Monday.
Contracts and legal deadlines that specify calendar days count every day from 21 March 2026 including weekends and public holidays, while deadlines specified in working or business days count only the days this page includes in its working-day total. The difference between the two conventions can shift a deadline by several days once weekends and holidays are counted.
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