No — today is not a public holiday in Queensland.

The first line of this page answers that for today on Brisbane time, worked out from the same dates as the tables below. If your device's clock has moved past the day the page was built, the answer re-checks itself in your browser and says so beside the verified badge. A part-day holiday gets a “Partly” rather than a yes, and a day that applies in one region only is never counted as a holiday for the whole state.

Thirteen across the whole state — the first is New Year's Day on Thursday 1 January 2026 and the last is Additional public holiday for Boxing Day on Monday 28 December 2026, with one more that applies in part of the state only. The total moves from year to year because several days gain a substitute or an extra Monday when they land on a weekend, and the last column of the table says which rule produced each date.

The calendar leaf near the top of this page names it and counts the days from today on Brisbane time. Holidays are gazetted a year at a time, so the 2027 list already sits under the 2026 one — the answer keeps working through December instead of running out at New Year, and the 2027 dates are the ones to plan travel or rosters around.

Yes. In 2026 the QLD public holiday for Anzac Day is Saturday 25 April 2026 — under Holidays Act 1983 (Qld). Whether a jurisdiction adds a day, swaps the day or leaves a weekend Anzac Day where it falls is the rule that differs most across the country, which is why the answer for QLD should never be taken from a national list.

No — the Monday is. Anzac Day 2027 falls on a Sunday, and the Schedule to the Holidays Act 1983 says the public holiday is observed on 25 April or, if that is a Sunday, on the following Monday. That "or" makes it a swap, so the holiday moves to Monday 26 April and the Sunday itself is an ordinary Sunday.

Three states, three answers, same weekend. New South Wales keeps the Sunday as Anzac Day and declares the Monday as an extra holiday on top, so it gets both. Victoria keeps the Sunday and adds nothing at all. Queensland swaps. If you run payroll across a border, that is three different results from one commemoration.

An evening, not a day. Section 2(3) makes 24 December a public holiday from 6pm to midnight — the only part-day public holiday among the jurisdictions published here.

It is also narrower than it looks. Section 2(4) says it applies only for working out entitlements under the Industrial Relations Act 2016, the Fair Work Act and the two portable long service leave Acts. Nobody gets 24 December off because of it: what it does is make the evening shift a public-holiday shift, which is a pay question rather than a calendar one.

No. The Royal Queensland Show holiday applies in the Brisbane local government area, and nowhere else. If you live in Logan, Ipswich, Moreton Bay or the Gold Coast you do not get it — those are separate local government areas, and each has its own show day on its own date.

The mechanism is section 4: a local government asks the Minister in writing, and the Minister appoints the day for that district. Section 4(4) then draws a distinction almost nobody explains — a special holiday is only a bank holiday, except when it is for an annual agricultural, horticultural or industrial show, when it is a public holiday too. So a show day is the real thing, and your council decides whether and when you get one.

Because Queensland moved it. Since 2016 the Schedule has put the Birthday of the Sovereign on the first Monday in October and Labour Day on the first Monday in May; before that the pair sat the other way around.

The result catches people out at the border. The first Monday in October is a long weekend in both Queensland and New South Wales — but in Queensland it is the King’s Birthday and in New South Wales it is Labour Day, while the June Monday that is the King’s Birthday down south is an ordinary working day in Brisbane.