- Tree goes up
- 1 December (increasingly also “first Sunday of December” or the second Saturday of December)
- Tree comes down
- 6 January (Epiphany), though many take trees down whenever convenient given real trees struggle in summer heat
- Local superstition
- No strong local superstition; the “bad luck to leave it up too long” idea is an imported British notion rather than an Australian folk belief.
Why that date
No strong religious anchor locally; 1 December has become the informal secular marker for “the start of the Christmas month” and is now widely treated as socially acceptable, partly reinforced by retailers and lifestyle media.
What actually happens
Around 70% of Australians reportedly have their tree up before December according to a Project Party survey; heat and humidity push many households toward artificial trees or shorter display windows for real ones.
Taking it down again
6 January (Epiphany), though many take trees down whenever convenient given real trees struggle in summer heat. No strong local superstition; the “bad luck to leave it up too long” idea is an imported British notion rather than an Australian folk belief.
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