Calendar Feeds & Data

The national feedis deliberately narrow: it only includes a date that’s a full day off across every state and territory, and a weekend-substitute day off counts as its own event alongside the actual date. When a substitute splits states across different dates rather than one shared day, the feed instead emits a single event at the earliest of those dates — so that date can differ from the one your own state observes, and that state’s feed is the accurate source for it. A Victoria-only day like Melbourne Cup Day or an event that only some states observe still won’t appear in it. It exists for anyone who needs a single Australia-wide list rather than one state’s calendar.

Each state feedmirrors that state’s statewide public-holiday list and separately labelled dates, including part-day holidays (Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, which carry their published start time and finish at midnight rather than running all day) and limited-scope dates, such as the NSW Bank Holiday. The NSW Bank Holiday is not a declared public holiday; it has limited banking and financial-institution scope. It does not include regional or local public holidays, such as show days and regattas that apply to one town or council area — those appear in the “Regional and local public holidays” section of the state page, not in any feed. If you live or work in a single state, that state’s feed is still the more accurate subscription for statewide dates.

In a state feed, event titles use that state’s official holiday name — “Christmas Day”, “Good Friday”, “Anzac Day (additional public holiday)” and so on. The NSW Bank Holiday is the exception: its title adds “not a declared public holiday” so the limited-scope date cannot be mistaken for a statewide public holiday. The national feed instead uses one shared title per occasion, so a state-specific name — South Australia’s “Proclamation Day holiday” on 26 December, for instance — folds into the name used everywhere else (“Boxing Day”). Every date, in either feed, is marked confirmed or tentative. A tentative event means the jurisdiction hasn’t yet published an official date for that year and the entry is a rule-based estimate rather than a gazetted one; it updates automatically once the official date is confirmed and the site rebuilds.

Coverage is a rolling rule rather than a fixed range: The national feed starts from its current national civil year (2026). Each state feed starts from that state's own current civil year — for example, the WA feed starts from 2026. Around an Australian midnight, those starting years can differ. Each feed then carries every supported year from its own starting year onward, so a subscription set up today keeps picking up new supported years as the site adds them — there's no need to re-subscribe when the calendar year changes.