Walk Safely to School Day is an annual, national event in
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
in which primary school children are encouraged to walk or commute safely to school, an initiative of the Pedestrian Council of Australia. It is held annually in May on a varying date.
Originally only held in
New South Wales
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from 1999 to 2003, the event began nationally on 2 April 2004.
The event is sponsored by the
Department of Health and Ageing
The Australian Federal Department of Health and Ageing was an Australian government department that existed between November 2001 and September 2013.
The department was created after the 2001 federal election from the Department of ...
, and is supported by all state, territory and local governments, the
Heart Foundation,
the Cancer Council,
Planet Ark
Planet Ark Environmental Foundation is an Australian non-profit environmental organization founded in 1992. Planet Ark works with partners in the public and private sectors to help find the simple ways in which their partners can reduce their im ...
,
Diabetes Australia
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,
Beyond Blue, and the
Australian Conservation Foundation
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is Australia's national environmental organisation, launched in 1965 in response to a proposal by the World Wide Fund for Nature for a more co-ordinated approach to sustainability.
One high-profil ...
.
The 2017 date was 19 May.
See also
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Crossing guard
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Pedestrian crossing
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Walkability
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Walk to school campaign
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The campaign is run by the charity Living Stre ...
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Walk to Work Day
Walk to Work Day is an annual, national event in Australia encouraging people to walk to work. The event is an initiative of the Pedestrian Council of Australia, and supported by the Australian Government. In 2015, it was held on Friday 13 Nove ...
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Walking bus
A walking bus (crocodile, walking school bus) is a form of student transport for schoolchildren who, chaperoned typically by two adults (a "driver" leads and a "conductor" follows), walk to school along a set route, with some similarities to ...
References
Education in Australia
May observances
Pedestrian activism
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