Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Work and Leisure - Australia


Is has always been difficult and is currently becoming even more so to talk about leisure in Australia without talking about work. There is in Australia a tension between the work ethic and the attitude symbolized by what is known as “the long weekend” – the fact that Australia’s relatively plentiful public holidays are regularly transferred to Monday so that workers can get away for three successive days (or even four if they can swing it with their boss or doctor). One book by social commentator Ronald Conway even has the reproving title The Land of the Long Weekend (1978), which followed his equally tart The Great Australian Stuper (1971).



Source: Clancy, Laurie. Culture and Customs of Australia. London: Greenwood Press.

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