Australia Edition
World Careful Driver Day leads today's complete edition for Australia.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for buses, taxis, rideshare cars, delivery vans, trucks, bicycles, scooters, and everyone trusting strangers on the road.
The longest day. In Hobart, the sun sets after 9 PM. In Darwin, it set at 6:30 PM and has been doing that all year because the tropics do not believe in seasons. The evening stretches on and the backyard cricket game goes until you cannot see the ball anymore. Which in December means about 9:30.
A day for mending the little thing before it becomes the expensive thing.
A day for the footwear that knows the job better than the person wearing it wants to admit.
You discover lemurs, tenrecs, and Réunion kestrels as the distinctive wildlife of this Indian Ocean island. You observe that residents commonly keep dogs, cats, and introduced species like chukar partridges as pets. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
