King Charles’ actual birthday is November 14, but in Queensland we mark the monarch’s birth on the first Monday in October.

This sometimes aligns us with WA – but not this year – and never with the other states, who get their holiday on the second Monday in June.

So how will you spend the long weekend? We’ve come up with a range of ideas, both in the Brisbane region and in the surrounding cities.

FOR GROWN-UPS

Museum: Precious

Eclectic collectors of Brisbane have loaned their treasures to the Museum of Brisbane: from vintage bottles and matchbooks to tin toys and ceramic feet, from tea chests and axes to dental tools and Melbourne Olympics trading cards.

Museum of Brisbane, daily 10am-5pm, free.

Film: Dirty Dancing in Concert

Nobody puts baby in a corner: Patrick Swayze an

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