After months of consultation, the state government has finally revealed WA’s new-look public holiday calendar, including two new additional days off a year and changes to three existing dates.

In the major shakeup, WA Day, currently in June and often dampened by wet weather, will be moved to the second Monday in November.

In its place, the King’s Birthday public holiday will be moved from late September to the second Monday in June, to better align with other states.

And Labour Day, currently on the first Monday in March, will shift to the second Monday of the same month, and in election years, it will be the third Monday to avoid voting falling over a long weekend.

A new weekday public holiday, to be known as Show Day, will be added to the calendar for the first Monday of the Term 3 s

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