{"id":444415,"date":"2026-01-29T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444415\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:55:08","slug":"chris-minns-floats-the-idea-of-extra-public-holiday-in-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444415\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Minns floats the idea of extra public holiday in NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, Anzac Day is only deemed a public holiday in NSW on April 25, even if it occurs on a Saturday or Sunday, as will be the case this year, when it falls on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have a conversation about it for this year,&#8221; Minns told Triple M&#8217;s Beau, Cat &amp; Woodsy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re underserved when it comes to public holidays; there&#8217;s a lot more in every other state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Minns insisted he would not make moves until he had consulted with the RSL to ensure it doesn&#8217;t take away from the importance of remembrance ceremonies and marches on Anzac Day itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to have confidence that if we have a public holiday on the Monday, it doesn&#8217;t detract from the salience of the 25,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s got to be the 25 that&#8217;s hugely important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently, Anzac Day is only deemed a public holiday in NSW on April 25, even if it occurs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-444415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}