Australia Day 2014

Today is Australia Day. It is a public holiday in Australia, but this has not always been the case. It was not until 1935 did all the Australian states and territories use that name to mark that date. Not until 1994 did they begin to celebrate Australia Day consistently as a public holiday on that date.

Where I live, we have always, in Akela’s memory had cricket on Australia, except for one year. So, we hung out at the cricket. It was a day/.night game, starting at 1:50pm, finishing around 9:30pm, in time to see the Australia Day fireworks that were being put on after the Australia Day evening concert at the park across the river. There were certainly a lot of people in the city – there was 27,000 at the cricket, around another 30,000 at the Australia Day concert (which is always held after the Australia Day parade through town) and then there was the last stage of the Tour Down Under event earlier in the day, around lunch time.

 More information can be found out at this link http://www.australiaday.org.au/