The bells at City Hall in Brisbane rang for the duration of 70 chimes, one for each year of Her Majesty's reign. Australian Memorial ServiceĪs part of the National Day of Mourning, the Australian Memorial Service for Queen Elizabeth II was held at Australian Parliament House. You can watch the entire live broadcast or video highlights on The Royal Family’s channel on YouTube. The service was livestreamed to allow people around the world to take part in mourning The Queen. The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey on Monday 19 September. The Queen visited Queensland on eight occasions, the first visit being in 1954, and then subsequent visits in 1963, 1970, 1977, 1982, 1988, and 2002 with her last visit being to Brisbane in October 2011 to show her support of Queenslanders who suffered in the floods that occurred earlier in that year. In recognition of her contribution, a National Day of Mourning and public holiday was declared for Thursday 22 September 2022 across Australia. The Queen, who died just nine weeks ago at the age of 96, considered Remembrance Sunday, which commemorates the war dead, one of the most significant and important engagements in the royal calendar.

The Queen will be remembered fondly by millions worldwide as the longest reigning monarch of the Commonwealth. The Employer Services office will be CLOSED on 22 September 2022 and 3 October 2022.Queen Elizabeth II was much loved and respected by Queenslanders having served as the Sovereign for more than 70 years. Queensland businesses can confirm their options/restrictions for trading on public holidays here. Subscribers who have questions about their obligations to their employees are invited to contact our advice line on (07) 3220 3500. Enterprise agreements may carry their own specific terms as to how work on public holidays is compensated.įollowing the Prime Minister’s announcement regarding the National Day of Mourning, upcoming public holidays are scheduled as follows (list limited to eastern States and Territories): Date A limited number of Modern Awards also provide for full-time employees to receive the benefit of a public holiday that falls on a day they don’t work, though this is rare. This means work performed on Thursday, 22 September 2022, will attract the appropriate public holiday penalty prescribed by an employee’s governing instrument (often double time and a half), while full-time and part-time employees will be entitled to be absent without loss of pay (assuming their employer doesn’t reasonably require them to work).

In determining that a national public holiday was appropriate to mark a day of mourning, Prime Minister Albanese confirmed the decision was made “in consultation with all the state and territory leaders” adding, “this is a once in our lifetime event”.ĭespite wide-spread concern voiced by business regarding the inconvenience and unexpected cost imposed by the extraordinary public holiday, Mr Albanese defended the short notice of the once-off event saying the announcement that Thursday, 22 September 2022 would be a national public holiday was made “as soon as it was possible to make that announcement”.Īs a result of Thursday, 22 September 2022 being observed as a public holiday for the National Day of Mourning, all typical public holiday entitlements will flow to employees. Over the weekend, Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, announced that Thursday, 22 September 2022, will be observed as a public holiday across all of Australia in memory of Queen Elizabeth II, following her death on 8 September 2022. Queen’s Memorial Public Holiday announced for 22 September 2022

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