In Brisbane this is Black History Month
Celebrate Plastic Free July
7 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday / International Day of Co-operatives
7-14 NAIDOC Week
14-12 National Diabetes Week
Events
Just Dates: May
28 April -4 May Heart Week
4 World Naked Gardening Day / World Labyrinth Day
5 International Day of the Midwife
5-11 International Composting Awareness Week Australia
7 Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy / World Asthma Day
12 Mothers Day
15 International Day of Families / Al Nabka
17 International Day Against Homophobia / World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
19-25 National Palliative Care Week
20-26 National Volunteers Week
20-27 Schizophrenia Awareness Week
21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
22 International Day for Biological Diversity
25-31 Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
26-1 June Food Allergy Awareness Week
27 – 3 June Reconciliation Week
29 White Wreath Day / International Day of UN Peacekeepers
31 World MS Day
Just Dates February
Supporting Febfast 2019
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
1-7 World Interfaith Harmony Week
5-19 Chinese New Year of the Pig
6 Waitangi Day Aotearoa New Zealand
12 Indigenous Freedom Ride Anniversary 1965 1
13 Stolen Generations Apology 2008 / World Radio Day
18 International Asperger’s Day
20 World Day of Social Justice / World Harmony Day
Just Dates January
2019: UN International Year of Indigenous Languages
3 Grameen Bank set up in Bangladesh 1977
5 Anniversary of execution of Dundalli 1855
21 World Hug Day (Peace Initiative)26 Australia Day / Indigenous Invasion/Survival Day
24 International Day of Education
27 Holocaust Memorial Day / Vietnam Peace Agreement Signed 1973
30 Ghandi Day
Just Dates: December
1 World AIDS Day / West Papua National Flag Day / Sir Douglas Nichols become first Indigenous State Governor of South Australia. 2-10 Hanukkah 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 International Day of Disabled Persons
4 Queensland Government gazetted Aborigines Act and Torres Strait Island Act
5 International Volunteer Day / World Soil Day
7 International Civil Aviation Day / 19734 Eric Deeral becomes first Indigenous member of the Queensland Parliament.
8 Bodhi Day: Day of Enlightenment, celebrating the day that the historical Buddha (Shakyamuni or Siddhartha Gautama) experienced enlightenment (also known as Bodhi).
9 International Anti-Corruption Day / International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime (A/RES/69/323 / / World Choral Day
23 High Court handed down the Wik decision 1996
26 Boxing Day
Just Dates: November
November 10-December 10 is Human Rights Month
Supporting Men’s Health in Movember
12- 18 National Recycling Week
19
20 Universal Children’s Day / Transgender Day of Remembrance
24-December 2 Social Inclusion Week
25-10 December 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign
