Daylight saving remains in effect throughout March in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, with the clocks not going back until the first Sunday of April. 5 March 2029 still runs on daylight time in those five jurisdictions, one of the last full months of extended evening light before the shift into shorter winter days.
A public holiday landing on a Monday produces a three-day weekend together with the preceding Saturday and Sunday, one of the two most common long-weekend patterns on the Australian calendar. Monday 5 March 2029 falls on this day of the week, at the start of a standard five-day working stretch that runs through to Friday of the same week.
A public holiday that falls on a Monday or a Friday produces a three-day weekend without using any annual leave, which is why long-weekend planning around 5 March 2029 depends on which day of the week the nearest public holiday falls on. A midweek holiday delivers no such automatic extension, though many workers bridge it with a single day of leave.