So I found my self thinking why can’t there be a simple accurate way to know the public holidays in my state. I found a few around the place but most contained more information than I needed, valentines day, other Christian festivals, et cetera, or had gross inaccuracies, such as new years holiday falling on the first Monday of January. I thought then to myself I’ll take on the task of finding out the public holidays observed in the state and publish on the internet my result.
It turns out that all public holidays in Tasmania are listed in an act of parliament, the Statutory Holidays Act 2000, this is the primary source for my calendar. I found my way to that through the Workplace Standards Tasmania’s site which itself publishes a list of holidays that are observed however in a rather useless textual list (at the time of this post). In any case using these two sources I have compiled my Google calendar of Tasmanian public holidays (now generated using the Tasmanian Holidays Calculator) you can import it into Outlook or most calendar applications using the iCal format, XML version, to check the calendar out it is embedded below.
Note that some holidays are observed only in particular municipalities, these are marked with an asterisk *. Each item on the calendar lists where it is applicable in the event description.
Click here to subscribe to the calendar
Download (for importing into non-subscribing software)
Is this still an active project? I’m unable to add it to our phone system FreePBX, it’s complaining that “only HTTP(S) requests are handled”. Also, is it possible to edit the calendar? The issue is that I’m trying to find an internet calendar to subscribe to that will close our phone system automatically on public holidays in Launceston, but we don’t close on bank holidays so I need to remove those ones from the internet calendar, otherwise the phone system will close automatically on these days without us knowing. Happy to help contribute in any way I can to your project.
The calendar is still maintained however I’d recommend against using this calendar for that purpose. The calendar includes all holidays in the state, those marked with * are local only with the specifics in the event description. The calendar is read only for what I assume is obvious reasons. What you could do is use the calculator I’ve now linked to in the article to generate an .ics file then edit that. Creating a localised versions of this calendar are out of scope for now.
Thanks for the calendar. Has this been fully updated for 2016? it is missing Launceston Cup race day for tomorrow 23/2/16. (Which I believe is a PH).
also Easter seem to be missing
We are new to Tassie and were hoping this calendar would show all major as well as local Public Holidays.
Just updated the calendar with dates for this year and next. A bit late I know but better late than never I guess? Future updates should be considerably easier as I wrote a script for calculating all the dates automatically which I’ll post about in the near future.
I know this is old but thanks so much. Saved me from making it myself.
You’re welcome and no worries about commenting on old posts seeing as I take forever replying to them and updating this site in general.
YAY! Thanks, thanks, thanks! The useless Australian ICS calenndar URL from Microsoft for Outlook.com won’t even load!
Thanks again.
You’re welcome. The lack of decent and working alternatives is exactly the reason I made it in the first place.