OPINION: Who knows? A few more workers might be enticed to leave the home office, return to the CBD, and stay there if the Matildas are celebrated on a work day.
Not so long ago, the nation didn’t take a day off to celebrate sporting brilliance.
Quite the opposite. It made going to work fun by holding ticker tape parades in each of our capital cities to honour our champions, be they returning Olympians, cricketers, Wallabies or whomever.Getty Images, but his call for a public holiday is far from popular and has, unfortunately, put a political downside on an otherwise momentous national event.
Business groups large and small oppose a public holiday on the basis it is more lost income in straitened times. Those who can stay open argue they will have to pay penalty rates of up to 250 per cent.The prime minister, who has never run a business, countered that businesses apparently did well when we had a national day of mourning after the Queen died.“Let me tell you that hospitals run on Christmas Day, they run on New Year’s Day, they run 365 days a year.
Campese and teammate Phil Kearns during the victory parade in Sydney to celebrate the Wallabies’ World Cup win.Emergency departments, maybe, but what about all the elective surgery that would be cancelled?
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