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While the rest of the nation angles to take four days off between long weekends, there’s an entire state of people who are today relishing in their God-given right to enjoy a public holiday today as well.
In news that might not actually surprise anyone who has visited Tasmanian, tradition dictates that the inhabitants of the Apple Isle get Tuesday off as well.
In case you aren’t from one of those mainland families who has weirdo cousins across the Bass Strait who you have to visit every second Summer for a Christmas Day in turtlenecks, the people of Tassie love bragging about all that weird Tassie shit.
Things like cider, a drink that was served on taps in Hobart well before the hipsters up north discovered it. Or other bizarre Tasmanian things, like the Winter artworks that are painted with the blood of menstruating police whistleblowers in the centre of Salamanca Markets.
Or, the weirdest local quirk of all.. The fact that they don’t have to go to work on Easter Tuesday, which seems to be a public holiday that no one else in the Western World celebrates.
The fact that Tasmanians get a five-day weekend every Easter has been contentious issue for the state’s four employers (Cadbury, Cascade, Hobart Hospital, MONA) – However, the people would rather see their home state continue being propped up by the mainland than ever give up the Holy Tuesday.
As Australians not blessed by the antarctic winds just load it all up on to annual leave, the rest of the country is today looking down at Tasmania with a blend of both jealousy, respect and shame.
Really taking the piss guys.
