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If we believe the Queen's Birthday game shouldn't continue to be a Melbourne-Collingwood event (and I think it should continue as it is fixtured, but we should do more with the day itself) then we should be strongly campaigning that any new 'blockbuster' timeslots such as, potentially, Good Friday, should not be locked away for two teams only.

Serious question, what happens to the June public holiday, when the Queen is replaced by someone else? If the official birthday of the next head of state is in November, or some other non-footy month, what happens to our blockbuster?

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    Serious question, what happens to the June public holiday, when the Queen is replaced by someone else? If the official birthday of the next head of state is in November, or some other non-footy month, what happens to our blockbuster?

    It isn't her actual birthday. The same holiday would be called King's birthday if we had a male monarch.

    Edit: given it is the second Monday in June, rather than a specific date it obviously isn't an actual birthday. A quick Wikipedia search indicated it had been celebrated on that day since the 1930s.

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    It isn't her actual birthday. The same holiday would be called King's birthday if we had a male monarch.

    Edit: given it is the second Monday in June, rather than a specific date it obviously isn't an actual birthday. A quick Wikipedia search indicated it had been celebrated on that day since the 1930s.

    However, should we become a republic there would be no such holiday as Queen's (or King's) Birthday. I would expect the Government of the day would create another public holiday to commemorate something, but it may not be on the second Monday in June. Keep in mind, that the Queen's Birthday holiday is not the second Monday in June in every Australian State and whatever the new public holiday is to be it would likely be a national holiday held on the same day or date throughout the nation.

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    as long as melbourne supporters attend each year in droves no matter our placing on the ladder. It will also mean we can have 2 "grand final" matches each year!

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