Let’s get the politics out of our national celebrations, so that every single one of us can embrace National Wattle Day!🙂 To do that the work, the Wattle Day Association needs to get bigger and do more; any donations would help us to do that. Your donations will be used to: *Raise and sell […]
Author Archives: Suzette
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Jan
Jan
Plant your own shade for the summers to come. You won’t have to wait long to feel the difference if you plant a wattle tree. For example, the Australia’s floral emblem – Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) – can grow 1-1.5 m each year. It will start flowering flowering after three years in the spring, and […]
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Jan
Jan
As controversy continues about the date of 26 January for Australia Day celebrations, National Wattle Day (1 September) is quietly growing in popularity across Australia. We know that public enthusiasm for particular national days changes as each new generation re-examines the purpose and meaning of these celebrations. For example, we no longer celebrate Empire Day […]
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Aug
Aug
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC invites Australians to join her in the celebration of National Wattle Day in a recorded message: 20240819 GG message – Wattle Day Governor-General’s Wattle Day Message 1 September. 2024 It’s the 1st of September, the first day of spring. So […]
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Aug
Aug
The Wattle Day Association is proud to announce that the Golden Wattle Award 2024 winner is Ms Mikla Lewis OAM in recognition of her outstanding and inspirational work over more than forty years that has instilled her love of nature into a commitment to environmental conservation that has benefitted so many. During those years Mikla […]
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Aug
Aug
a cake with a wattle-theme for morning or afternoon tea with friends and family cupcakes with green and/or yellow icing your lunch and dinner tables with yellow napkins and vases of fresh or artificial wattle your dog’s collar with yellow and green ribbons or fresh wattle when you go for a walk
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Aug
Aug
Just a week away is National Wattle Day on the 1 September. So many ways to celebrate! Here’s 100 ways to enjoy this increasingly popular national day, proclaimed by the Governor-General in 1992. 100 Ways to Celebrate National Wattle Day
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Aug
Aug
A Letter to The Editor of your local newspaper about what is happening for National Wattle Day in your community A story or poem on what you think National Wattle Day is or what the day means to you A wattle-themed quiz An article about National Wattle Day for your local community newspaper A poem […]
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Aug
Aug
There are many ways to ‘wattle up’ for National Wattle Day. Wear a sprig of wattle in your jumper or button hole a yellow or green shirt, jacket or coat wear a wattle badge or brooch that you have made or bought a sprig of wattle or wattle badge in your hat wattle in your […]
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Aug
Aug
Decorate your shop windows, cover meters and shelves with fresh wattle. Take care though, just to prune the wattles you collect from to sample fresh wattle. Woolbarn Manuka Canberra National Museum Shop Canberra Parliament House, Canberra shop window Rhapsody Design and Co Dirty Jane’s Canberra Here are 100 more ways to celebrate this happy […]