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Australia’s first self-drive wattle trails

Australia’s first self-drive wattle trails are being launched on Friday 22 August 2025. Date & Time: 11:30 am to 4:30 pm Friday, 22 August 2025 Venue: Grenfell Community Hub, 88 Main Street, Grenfell Questions: Melanie Cooper, weddinlandcare@outlook.com or 0417 963 475 Located around Grenfell NSW, three trails have been mapped out to showcase natural roadside populations of the region’s 30 local wattle species. […]

Mayor Cheryl Fuller presents wattle bouquet to Australia’s Governor-General

Cheryl Fuller (Mayor of Central Coast Council Tasmania and a member of the Wattle Day Association) took the opportunity to present Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC with a wattle bouquet at a civic reception in Devonport during her recent trip to Tasmania. This wattle bouquet has a particularly special meaning as Her […]

Wattle features in new exhibition at the Royal Australian Mint

Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC launched the new exhibition on 26 May 2025: ‘Reflection: 50th Anniversary of the Honours and Awards System’ at the Royal Australian Mint. This exhibition is a must-see for recipients of Australian honours and awards, coin and medallion collectors and lovers of Stuart Devlin’s designs and master craftsmanship. […]

Australia’s Governor-General welcomed as Patron

Her Excellency at the lectern Parliament House 1 July 2024

The Wattle Day Association Inc. has great pleasure in announcing that the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of Australia, has formally accepted the role of Patron of the organisation. This is the first appointment of a patron in the nearly 27-year history of the association, incorporated in the […]

Be cool!

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 […]

National Days Evolve

Acacia pycnantha (Golden Wattle) against a blue sky) SD Searle

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 […]

Conservationist honoured with the 2024 Golden Wattle Award

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 […]