01 Jan 2025

Australia’s Significant Dates To Remember in 2025

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When planning staff, member, or client events, the calendar offers ready-made opportunities to inspire, reward, and connect your audience. The key is choosing the right moments and pairing them with the right entertainment or speaker.

  • Values-driven occasions – Days like International Women’s Day, RU OK? Day, NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Week, or World Environment Day give organisations a meaningful reason to bring people together. Booking a speaker with lived experience or deep expertise makes these moments powerful and authentic.
  • Motivational & celebratory occasions – Milestones such as EOFY, staff awards nights, sporting finals, the Olympics, or the Melbourne Cup are ideal for energising teams. Sporting greats, motivators, or high-profile entertainers can deliver the buzz, performance lessons, and inspiration people remember.

And then, of course, there are your own organisational events and milestones – kick-off events, conferences, awards nights, team incentives, and year-end celebrations.

The key to securing the best speakers is forward planning. We can help you curate an entire year of events, or simply source the right speaker for your next conference.

Whether you want to spark conversations about inclusion and wellbeing, or motivate staff with lessons from elite performers, ICMI speakers and entertainers can help you deliver an event that hits the right note.

2025 Australian Significant Days Calendar

JANUARY

1 January New Year’s Day
26 January Australia Day

MARCH

2 March Clean Up Australia Day
8 March International Women’s Day
13 – 16 March Australian Grand Prix
18 – 24 March Neurodiversity Celebration Week
20 March International Day of Happiness
21 March Harmony Day
21 March International Day of Racial Discrimination

APRIL

18 April Good Friday
19 April Easter Saturday
20 April Easter Sunday
21 April Easter Monday
22 April Earth Day
25 April ANZAC Day
28 April World Day for Safety and Health at Work

MAY

11 May Mother’s Day
26 May National Sorry Day
27 May – 3 June Reconciliation Week

JUNE

3 June Mabo Day
5 June World Environment Day
9 – 15 June Men’s Health Week
30 June End of Financial Year

JULY

6 – 13 July NAIDOC Week

AUGUST

12 August International Youth Day
30 August Wear It Purple Day

SEPTEMBER

1 – 5 September Women’s Health Week
3 September Australian National Flag Day
7 September Father’s Day
10 September World Suicide Prevention Day
11 September R U OK? Day
27 September AFL Grand Final
28 September NRL Grand Final

OCTOBER

1 – 31 October Mental Health Month
1 – 31 October National Work Safe Month
10 October World Mental Health Day

NOVEMBER

1 – 30 November Movember
4 November Melbourne Cup Day
11 November Remembrance Day
13 November World Kindness Day
19 November International Men’s Day

DECEMBER

3 December International Day of People with Disability
24 December Christmas Eve
25 December Christmas Day
26 December Boxing Day
31 December New Year’s Eve

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