Autumn begins on 1 March across Australia. March 2030 brings shorter days and cooler mornings to the southern states, while the tropical north's wet season continues through the month, with cyclone activity still active ahead of its end in April. The south moves out of its summer bushfire peak as the season turns over into the cooler months. Labour Day applies only in Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania during March, on different Mondays in each.
March closes the first calendar quarter of 2030 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 2030 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.
The shift from March into April brings the end of daylight saving in the south-eastern states and the start of the Easter and ANZAC Day period. March 2030 hands over a month shaped by state-based Labour Day holidays to one carrying two of the biggest national observances of the year, both falling within the same four-week stretch. March is the ninth month of the financial year that began the previous July as well.