Melbourne Cup Holiday

How ridiculous! If we really do need another public holiday (someone explain to me why) why are we celebrating a horse race in Melbourne???

That said, I will be enjoying my day off like everyone else. November’s a great month for a holiday!

As far as I am concerned, celebrating melbourne cup is about as relevant as celebrating the Queens Birthday. Its a day off, hang out with your family and mates and be happy that our country is run a despot with scant regard for his fellow aussies, and put a bet down, or learn to. May as well make the day educational none the less.

Great! Now I can get down to the racecourse to meet Nikki, Kelly & frenchie who adorned one of Kerces’ photos last year.

And their mate, the lawyer wot can’t spel.

Seems like a decent choice if you’re going to make another public holiday, does anyone actually do any work on Melbourne Cup day anyway? Usually turns out to be a day long lunch in my experience.

Who cares what it’s for… it’s another day off!

Actually, for most public servants it won’t be an extra day off because their workplace agreements stipulate a set number of public holidays. At the moment, the ACT has one less public holidays than most regions (no show day) and they get an extra day off at Christmas. By gazetting this as an official public holiday it will cost public servants their extra day at Christmas.

I’m surprised the new public holiday isn’t set down to mark the release date of David Hicks, since Stanhope was such a champion of his cause!

The Feds (liberal or labor) will never allow it.

Oh, the poor public servants! Paid huge amounts of taxpayers money to sit on their arses. How terrible it’ll cost them that extra day! My heart bleeds…

If BigDave were to have an indian name, it would be Wanker-Who-Speaks.

Unbelievably ridiculous….

As much as I love having a day off this is just plain, well, ridiculous.

So what do you do for a crust BigDave ?

Suck golfballs through hoses ?

Methinks BigDave doth protest too much

I work for a private company and we tend to take exactly the amount of time away from work to watch the cup and work out who won. The rest of the day is work as usual.

So I’d be happy with another day off. Though personally I think we should just take the holidays we already have and redistribute them more evenly throughout the year.

This was discussed here when it was mooted back in April.

Whatever Dave does Danman, you can bet it’s more worthy than what you or I do. He obviously doesn’t have time to grow a brain.

Bwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

For those who think public servants don’t work hard (OK, some don’t) – my last 3 days at work: 14hrs 5 mins; 7 hrs 25mins; 8 hrs 45mins.

-I eagerly await my public service medal next Queen’s Birthday.

What on earth is going on with RiotAct. Not only was this news broken back in April (three months ago), but Johnboy posted it on RiotAct on April 6th. Nothing has changed. Just Labor re-releasing an old policy to attract the attention of some bored and out-of-date media!

And you obviously don’t bother to read the other comments, because I’ve already posted a link to the old riotact story.

It was only made official in the past day or so.. so that is why it was mentioned now and yes it was first discussed months ago… moving on now..

I don’t think most people will mind the extra day off.. except anyone who owns a business lol

I hold the opinion that it is really a load of bull, but I’m not complaining!

Instead of losing half a day work all government agencies will lose 2 days from their staff, everyone will now flex off on the Monday.. as Melbourne Cup.. sorry I mean “Family and Community Day” is a Tuesday, 4 day long weekend here we come!

Ah well Labor/Unions sure must miss their picnic day.. it wasn’t even a gazetted day off nor was it granted to everyone, only by the suckers of bosses.

I’ll enjoy my paid days off, thanks!