What are the origins of Mother's day?

By Sam Hollier
May 3 2019 - 8:30am
Australia: We first celebrated Mother's Day in 1924. Janet Heyden organised for local school children and businesses to donate gifts to the forgotten mothers at the Newington State Home for Women. Photo: Shutterstock.
Australia: We first celebrated Mother's Day in 1924. Janet Heyden organised for local school children and businesses to donate gifts to the forgotten mothers at the Newington State Home for Women. Photo: Shutterstock.

Australia first celebrated a Mother's Day in 1924, although we were certainly not the first country to do so.

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