Editing Labour Day (section)

===Australia===
[[File:Hands off Timorese Oil - Brisbane May Day 2017 parade.jpg|thumb|A May Day parade in [[Brisbane]] in 2017]]
Labour Day is a [[Public holidays in Australia|public holiday in Australia]] on dates which vary between [[States and territories of Australia|states and territories]]. In some states the date commemorates the Eight Hours Day march (see below). It is the first Monday in October in the [[Australian Capital Territory]], [[New South Wales]] and [[South Australia]]. In [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]] and [[Tasmania]], it is the second Monday in March (though the latter calls it the [[Eight Hours Day]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/93-119aa027%20authorised.pdf |title=Public Holidays Act 1993 |publisher=vic.gov.au |access-date=8 October 2024 |archive-date=19 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919000527/https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/93-119aa027%20authorised.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legislation.tas.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2000-096 |title=Tasmanian Legislation Online: Statutory Holidays Act 2000 |publisher=tas.gov.au |access-date=8 October 2024 |archive-date=3 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241003230751/https://www.legislation.tas.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-2000-096 |url-status=live}}</ref> In [[Western Australia]], Labour Day is the first Monday in March.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/prod/filestore.nsf/FileURL/mrdoc_44571.pdf/$FILE/Public%20and%20Bank%20Holidays%20Act%201972%20-%20[02-g0-00].pdf |title=Public and Bank Holidays Act 1972 |publisher=wa.gov.au |access-date=8 October 2024 |archive-date=17 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617020359/https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/prod/filestore.nsf/FileURL/mrdoc_44571.pdf/$FILE/Public%20and%20Bank%20Holidays%20Act%201972%20-%20[02-g0-00].pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> In [[Queensland]] and the [[Northern Territory]], Labour Day occurs on the first Monday in May (though the latter calls it May Day).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/special-dates-and-events/public-holidays |title=Australian Government: National Public Holidays |publisher=australia.gov.au |access-date=7 March 2016 |archive-date=14 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414132759/https://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/special-dates-and-events/public-holidays |url-status=live}}</ref> It is on the fourth Monday of March in the territory of [[Christmas Island]].

====Victoria====

The first march for an [[Eight-hour day movement|eight-hour day]] by the [[Australian labour movement#Early history|labour movement]] occurred in [[Melbourne]] on 21 April 1856.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alldownunder.com/australian-dates/holiday-labour-day.htm |title=Australian Public Holidays: Labour Day |work=alldownunder.com |date=1998 |access-date=7 March 2016 |archive-date=19 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619093412/http://alldownunder.com/australian-dates/holiday-labour-day.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> On this day, stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne stopped work and marched from the [[University of Melbourne]] to [[Parliament House, Melbourne|Parliament House]] to achieve an eight-hour day. Their direct action protest was a success, and they are noted as being among the first organised workers in the world to achieve an eight-hour day, with no loss of pay.<ref name="LewisBalderstone2006">{{cite book |first1=Wendy |last1=Lewis |first2=Simon |last2=Balderstone |first3=John |last3=Bowman |title=Events that Shaped Australia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_6TVAAAACAAJ |access-date=7 March 2016 |year=2006 |publisher=[[New Holland Publishers]] |isbn=978-1-74110-492-9 |page=57}}</ref>

====Queensland====
Labour Day was first celebrated with a public holiday in [[Queensland]] in 1865 as Eight Hours Celebration Day. It occurred on 1 March ([[Saint David's Day]]) and celebrated the winning of an eight-hour work day by [[Brisbane]] workers in 1858. The date was moved to May Day around 1896, in solidarity with the attack on United States workers on the first May Day parade in the [[Haymarket affair]]. In 1901, the holiday was moved to the first Monday in May, to ensure a long weekend.<ref>Radical Brisbane (2004), ISBN 0958079455, pp 231–4.</ref>