September 14, 2025 • 6 mins
Roger Cook joined us with some tips for Russell as he settles into his new role and shared why he wants WA’s public holidays to better align with the eastern states.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've been watching every breath they Premier takes lately to
see what's happening with our new public holidays. Yes, we've
all been waiting with Braine no not you know, suggest
that we're a lazy bunch, but we don't mind it.
Easter holiday. Roger Cook is joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, Morning Premier.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning. I love that segue from us from a
police song to public holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And we do we have some new ones. What's going
on with the public holidays?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, as people to be aware, we've been undertaking a
bit of a review of public holidays in wa both
in terms of the number of them and secondly in
terms of when they occur. So we had about eleven
We've got about eleven public holidays at the moment. Most
states have got around thirteen. And of course, as everyone knows,
all our public holidays are loaded up in the front
(00:50):
half of the year. Yes, and we have to celebrate
wa day when it's raining, in cold, dark and wet.
So I mean, we wanted to sort of have a
look at this, just just do a review. We put
out a little consultation paper. Tens ten thousand people and
organizations responded to that. And so we're proposing some new changes.
(01:10):
Shall I take you through them? Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Please?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, we're going Our calendar is ready, yeah, excellent. So
we've decided on extra two public holidays, and as part
of that, we want to align a lot of the
public holidays that we have that don't align with the
East Coast, so you know that annoying thing. We've got
a public holiday, they don't, then they have a public holiday,
(01:34):
then we don't. So we're aligning Labor Day and the
King's Birthday with the East Coast to make sure that
there's a we get better productivity out of that. We're
a single economy in this country, so we need to
make sure that we can all work together. Yes. The
other thing we've done is we've moved Wada away from
the winter and now the idea is to celebrate that
(01:55):
in the first weekend in November. So basically it becomes
us bring fester. We're celebrating our community, celebrating everything that's
great about our wonderful state. Now, as I said, we've
included two new public holidays. We are aligning ourselves with
the wreck with the East Coast in declaring Easter Saturday
(02:15):
are public holiday. Now and we're going to bring a
new public holiday in the second half of the year. Now,
this will occur in the first weekend on the first
Monday of the September October school holidays. You know, that
aligns with a very important event which every person living
in Perth loves and that is the Perth World Show.
(02:37):
So we call that behind. Yes, absolutely, so that's going
to be called Show Day. A great opportunity for families
to spend time together.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This is all very very very sensible. I mean, nothing
says waday like cold, wet and duck. So you know,
I mean we want to move back to November. That
makes wonderful sense. And of course people have been talking
about getting our holiday is aligned with the East Coast
for years and years and years because it is a
sort of day loss.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Just sort of with time to time to just do it,
you know, we get ourselves better aligned with the East
Coast and we can all celebrate as one.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And they weren't going to move to ours, they weren't
going to move to accommodation.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
We have to be the biggest state.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, that's right, and.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Look there's a few of them.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, it doesn't completely line up I mean, but
basically we're aligning ourselves with the beef big East Coast economies.
We think that's a sensible point of a sensible approach
to take in terms of, you know, just continuing to
drive productivity.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
As put forward by that esteem w a publication on
Facebook at least the bell Tower Times Clive Palmer denied
days still on the table. Is it a possibility down
the track.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Or have we moved on? Reader of the bell Tower Times,
I always make sure I'm guided by them when it
comes to great public policy.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well yeah, yeah, this is your first chat with us,
with Russell, your lazy left ust stepping into a role
with big shoes to fill. Do you have any advice
for Russell?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
First of all, I just like to say that my
application to your job, I.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Knew I was in a pool of applicants and there
was some pretty high profile one.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, well look, congratulations Russell, welcome to the day. I'm
sure Lisa is.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Showing you the ropes and yeah, look as someone else
that took over, you know, from from another person with yeah,
and I just say, be you genuine, Russell.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
This is your show, This is your show. It's a
bit late, Joy.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It's a bit late in life to try and be
someone else. Now, I think that's the.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Advice that guy gave you, because it's very good advice. Definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, well we'll look. I obviously catch up with Mark
quite a bit. I'm still, you know, get great advice,
but from from time to time. But I just think
people out there want to know who you are and
what you stand for, and that's the that's the issue
that I've you know, continue to guide me all the
way along, is that I'm Roger and I'm just going
(05:19):
to do me.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Hi, I'm Roger.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You remember me from I think it was Mark Twain
that said be yourself because everyone else is taken.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That's a beautiful way to describe.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They are words to live by and you may have that. Well,
actually I've asked my train, but I'm giving it to you, Roger.
Thank you for the public holidays, Thank for the chat
this morning. We'll catch up with you soon.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Look forward to the guys. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And we're we're booking in our extra holidays.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah that's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, we had.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Less than other parts of the country. I mean, I
new Canberra had more, but then that just goes without saying,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Northern Territory, I think at the moment.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, probably it's fireworks.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Day you just need Oh god, it's hot day.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
What is that Todd River thing where they do the
dry river bed where they have a whole holiday for
that too. They have all sorts of all sorts of stuff.
It's a crazy place anyway. We're catching up mud crabs,
moving a few around.
We've been watching every breath they Premier takes lately to
see what's happening with our new public holidays. Yes, we've
all been waiting with Braine no not you know, suggest
that we're a lazy bunch, but we don't mind it.
Easter holiday. Roger Cook is joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, Morning Premier.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning. I love that segue from us from a
police song to public holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And we do we have some new ones. What's going
on with the public holidays?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, as people to be aware, we've been undertaking a
bit of a review of public holidays in wa both
in terms of the number of them and secondly in
terms of when they occur. So we had about eleven
We've got about eleven public holidays at the moment. Most
states have got around thirteen. And of course, as everyone knows,
all our public holidays are loaded up in the front
(00:50):
half of the year. Yes, and we have to celebrate
wa day when it's raining, in cold, dark and wet.
So I mean, we wanted to sort of have a
look at this, just just do a review. We put
out a little consultation paper. Tens ten thousand people and
organizations responded to that. And so we're proposing some new changes.
(01:10):
Shall I take you through them? Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Please?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, we're going Our calendar is ready, yeah, excellent. So
we've decided on extra two public holidays, and as part
of that, we want to align a lot of the
public holidays that we have that don't align with the
East Coast, so you know that annoying thing. We've got
a public holiday, they don't, then they have a public holiday,
(01:34):
then we don't. So we're aligning Labor Day and the
King's Birthday with the East Coast to make sure that
there's a we get better productivity out of that. We're
a single economy in this country, so we need to
make sure that we can all work together. Yes. The
other thing we've done is we've moved Wada away from
the winter and now the idea is to celebrate that
(01:55):
in the first weekend in November. So basically it becomes
us bring fester. We're celebrating our community, celebrating everything that's
great about our wonderful state. Now, as I said, we've
included two new public holidays. We are aligning ourselves with
the wreck with the East Coast in declaring Easter Saturday
(02:15):
are public holiday. Now and we're going to bring a
new public holiday in the second half of the year. Now,
this will occur in the first weekend on the first
Monday of the September October school holidays. You know, that
aligns with a very important event which every person living
in Perth loves and that is the Perth World Show.
(02:37):
So we call that behind. Yes, absolutely, so that's going
to be called Show Day. A great opportunity for families
to spend time together.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This is all very very very sensible. I mean, nothing
says waday like cold, wet and duck. So you know,
I mean we want to move back to November. That
makes wonderful sense. And of course people have been talking
about getting our holiday is aligned with the East Coast
for years and years and years because it is a
sort of day loss.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Just sort of with time to time to just do it,
you know, we get ourselves better aligned with the East
Coast and we can all celebrate as one.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And they weren't going to move to ours, they weren't
going to move to accommodation.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
We have to be the biggest state.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, that's right, and.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Look there's a few of them.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, it doesn't completely line up I mean, but
basically we're aligning ourselves with the beef big East Coast economies.
We think that's a sensible point of a sensible approach
to take in terms of, you know, just continuing to
drive productivity.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
As put forward by that esteem w a publication on
Facebook at least the bell Tower Times Clive Palmer denied
days still on the table. Is it a possibility down
the track.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Or have we moved on? Reader of the bell Tower Times,
I always make sure I'm guided by them when it
comes to great public policy.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well yeah, yeah, this is your first chat with us,
with Russell, your lazy left ust stepping into a role
with big shoes to fill. Do you have any advice
for Russell?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
First of all, I just like to say that my
application to your job, I.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Knew I was in a pool of applicants and there
was some pretty high profile one.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, well look, congratulations Russell, welcome to the day. I'm
sure Lisa is.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Showing you the ropes and yeah, look as someone else
that took over, you know, from from another person with yeah,
and I just say, be you genuine, Russell.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
This is your show, This is your show. It's a
bit late, Joy.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It's a bit late in life to try and be
someone else. Now, I think that's the.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Advice that guy gave you, because it's very good advice. Definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, well we'll look. I obviously catch up with Mark
quite a bit. I'm still, you know, get great advice,
but from from time to time. But I just think
people out there want to know who you are and
what you stand for, and that's the that's the issue
that I've you know, continue to guide me all the
way along, is that I'm Roger and I'm just going
(05:19):
to do me.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Hi, I'm Roger.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You remember me from I think it was Mark Twain
that said be yourself because everyone else is taken.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That's a beautiful way to describe.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They are words to live by and you may have that. Well,
actually I've asked my train, but I'm giving it to you, Roger.
Thank you for the public holidays, Thank for the chat
this morning. We'll catch up with you soon.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Look forward to the guys. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And we're we're booking in our extra holidays.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah that's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, we had.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Less than other parts of the country. I mean, I
new Canberra had more, but then that just goes without saying,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Northern Territory, I think at the moment.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, probably it's fireworks.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Day you just need Oh god, it's hot day.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
What is that Todd River thing where they do the
dry river bed where they have a whole holiday for
that too. They have all sorts of all sorts of stuff.
It's a crazy place anyway. We're catching up mud crabs,
moving a few around.
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