Hi All, It’s the Queen’s Birthday weekend, woohoo long weekend. As wonderful as it is to have a holiday, this whole thing is shrouded in confusion. It’s not the day the Queen was born and it is celebrated on the second Monday in June. This is the case in all Australian states except WA who seem even more confused than we are. There is a plus side to this for the Queen. Celebrating birthdays began as a way to protect people from evil spirits that could have greater power over a person when there was a significant event, such as turning a year older. Friends would gather and make lots of noise and make it unpleasant for the evil spirits (and the neighbours). To have as a celebration date the 2nd Monday in June, would indicate a desire to measure in weekly increments rather than yearly increments as the interval between one and the next cannot be measured accurately in years but can be measured accurately in weeks. Why not measure birthdays in weeks? There would be so many occasions to celebrate, surely the effects of the evil spirits per event would be diminished, after all the Queen is approx 4300 weeks old. Accuracy being such an important and desirable quality in society today I feel it is our duty, if the Queen’s birthday is to be described in such a way, to lobby that this holiday be celebrated weekly rather than annually. Who wants to get the ball rolling? I think all the information you will need to make this happen will be held within the Walter Harrison Law Library. Good Luck we are all behind you.

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