More Holidays For Gong

Illawarra Mercury

Wednesday July 30, 2008

By Business Editor GREG ELLIS

MOBILE Bike Rental's Radmila Avramovic was on the internet recently when she stumbled across an interesting site at www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/holidays.

After looking at the site she thought about the prospects of Wollongong getting its own afternoon public holiday.

The site explains what it is and Ms Avramovic thought such a holiday might be used as a good promotional tool to celebrate Wollongong and the Illawarra.

As a boy originally from Muswellbrook, which has two such holidays a year, the idea resonated with me.

Where I grew up, the whole town would go to the races at Skellatar Park, where they would display a sense of community that attracted visitors from all over the state.

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