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Just Dates: May

 

28 April -4 May          Heart Week

1          International Workers Day

1- 3      World Press Freedom Day

 2         Holocaust Remembrance Day

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

10          World Lupus 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           National Sorry Day

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

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    Just Dates: March

     
    3 
    8 International Women’s Day
     
    10-16 World Glaucoma Week
     
    11 Commonwealth Day
     
    13-20 Coeliac Awareness Week
     
     
    15 
    17 St Patrick’s Day
     
     
     
    20 World Storytelling Day 
     
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    22 World Water Day
     
    23 World Meteorological Day
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Just Dates February

    Supporting Febfast 2019

    Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

    1-7 World Interfaith Harmony Week

    2 World Wetlands Day

    4 World Cancer Day

    5 Safer Internet Day

    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

    14 National Condom Day  

    18 International Asperger’s Day

    20 World Day of Social Justice / World Harmony Day

    21  International Mother Language Day

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    Just Dates January

    2019: UN International Year of Indigenous Languages

    1 World Day of Peace Message

    3 Grameen Bank set up in Bangladesh 1977

    5 Anniversary of execution of Dundalli 1855

    15 Martin Luther King Day 

    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

    Calendar of Cultural and Religious Dates

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    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

    10 Human Rights Day

    11 International Mountain Day

    22 Summer Solstice

    23 High Court handed down the Wik decision 1996

    25 Christmas Day

    26 Boxing Day

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    Just Dates: November

    November 10-December 10 is Human Rights Month

    Supporting Men’s Health in Movember

    18  World Day of the Poor  /  World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
    19

    20  Universal Children’s Day  / Transgender Day of Remembrance

    21 World Television Day
    24-December 2 Social Inclusion Week
    25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

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    Just Dates: October

    Breast Cancer Awareness Month

    1 International Day for Older Persons

    2 World Habitat Day

    4-10 World Space Week

    6-14 Mental Health Week 

    9 World Post Day

    10 World Day Against the Death Penalty / World Mental Health Day

    12 World Sight Day

    13  International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction

    14-20 Anti-Poverty Week 

    16 World Food Day

    17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

    19 – 28 Queensland Children’s  Week

    20-27 National Unity Week

    24 United Nations Day 

    24-30 Disarmament Week

    27  World Teacher’s Day ( Qld)

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