For the most part, local holidays will remain on the same date. There will, however, be minor changes. The celebration of the Queen's Birthday observance in Australia and New Zealand, scattered to different dates throughout the area, will be standardised as a public holiday on Monday 5 June. The intention of fixing the date rather than having it change with the monarch was to keep it close to 3 June, the birthday of King George V. Easily the nearest Monday to this is 5 June, hence this is the date on which the holiday will be fixed throughout Australia and New Zealand. There will no longer be a Foundation Day holiday in Western Australia. In addition, Australia will observe two new holidays: one on Saturday 3 June itself, called Mabo Day (to celebrate the Mabo decision pertaining to Aboriginal Australians in the High Court in 1992 and a celebration of the nation's Aboriginal heritage in general); and on Wednesday 8 August, called Saint Mary MacKillop's Day (the death of celebrated Australian saint and cultural icon Mary MacKillop). Furthermore, all holidays specific to an Australian state or territory will be removed; a Labour Day holiday will be observed nationwide throughout Australia on Monday 2 October (the most common date in the country).

 

The bank holiday traditionally on the last Monday in May in the United Kingdom, and on the first Monday in June in the Republic of Ireland, will be moved to the last Monday in May (27 May) in both, as historically it was the day after Pentecost Sunday, having been changed in recent decades to prevent another floating holiday. Now that Pentecost Sunday is fixed on 26 May, it seems more logical to fix this bank holiday on 27 May in both.

 

I would personally prefer, now that holidays are fixed on their dates, that United States federal holidays be returned to their traditional dates (although a weekday can still be used if the date in question is a Saturday or Sunday). This would leave the following:

• New Year's Day: Sunday 1 January

• MLK Junior Day: Monday 16 January

• Washington's Birthday: Wednesday 22 February

• Memorial Day: TBA (use the same procedure I previously described for 30 May birthdays)

• Independence Day: Wednesday 4 July

• Labor Day: Monday 5 September

• Columbus Day: Thursday 12 October

• Veteran's Day: Friday 10 November

• Thanksgiving Day: Thursday 23 November

• Christmas Day: Sunday 25 December