The Royal Queensland Show, known as the Ekka, runs in Brisbane through August every year, bringing a public holiday for the greater Brisbane area on the Wednesday of the show. No other state or region observes a public holiday in August 2029, leaving the rest of the country to work through an ordinary month without any interruption to the standard working week. The AFL and NRL home-and-away seasons both close out during August, ahead of the finals in September.
The working-day count for August 2029 applies the Ekka public holiday only within greater Brisbane, leaving every other region of the country to count the full run of weekdays across the 31 days of the month. No other state or territory subtracts a public holiday from August under the standard national and fixed-date public holiday list. August sits in the third calendar quarter of 2029, with ten months remaining before the 30 June financial year close.
August 2029 closes with the football finals races settled and spring about to arrive on 1 September. September follows with the AFL finals series, the return of warmer days, and Western Australia's King's Birthday long weekend on the last Monday of the month, months after every other state observes the same public holiday name. Wattle, the national floral emblem, comes into bloom across much of the country during August.