The Queen's Birthday Holiday clash is an annual Australian rules football match between Australian Football League (AFL) teams Melbourne and Collingwood, held on the Queen's Birthday Holiday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Football has been played on the Queen's or King's Birthday holiday since the first season of the Victorian Football League in 1897.

In 1958 a record home and away crowd of 99,346 saw a top of the table clash between Melbourne and Collingwood.

Since 2001 the AFL has officially recognised the entire round as the Queens Birthday Round and only scheduled Collingwood against Melbourne at the MCG on the holiday Monday. Collingwood won the 2001 game by a then-record 77 points and Chris Tarrant took one of the marks of the year.

To date there has been no official trophy awarded to the winning team and no official medal has been awarded to the player judged best on field.

As Collingwood has one of the largest supporter bases in Victoria, the opportunity to host them on a public holiday is seen as a major financial benefit to Melbourne. It has been suggested that other teams such as North Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs should share the clash. The AFL has also threatened to change the fixture to another club if the attendances don't remain above 60,000.

The Queen's Official Birthday (King's Official Birthday in the reign of a male monarch) is the selected day on which the birthday of the monarch of the Commonwealth realms (currently Queen Elizabeth II) is officially celebrated in those countries and in Fiji, which is now a republic. The date varies as adopted by each Commonwealth country, but is generally around the end of May to the start of June, to coincide with a high probability of fine weather in the Northern Hemisphere for outdoor ceremonies.

The sovereign's birthday was first officially marked in the United Kingdom in 1748. Since then, the date of the king or queen's birthday has been determined throughout the British Empire and later the Commonwealth according to either different royal proclamations issued by the sovereign or governor or by statute laws passed by the local parliament. The exact date of the celebration today varies from country to country and except by coincidence does not fall on the day of the monarch's actual birthday (that of the present monarch being 21 April). In some cases, it is an official public holiday, sometimes coinciding with the celebration of other events. Most Commonwealth realms release a Birthday Honours List at this time.

Cocoa Tea(born Calvin George Scott, September 3, 1959, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae/dancehall singer, songwriter, and DJ.

Cocoa Tea was popular in Jamaica in from 1985, but has become successful worldwide only since the 1990s. One of his most famous songs is "Rikers Island", which was later put into a dub version by Nardo Ranks entitled "Me No Like Rikers Island" (featured on Dancehall Reggaespanol) which was released the same year as the original "Rikers Island". He also gained fame with the song "Young Lover". He gained notoriety in March 2008 after releasing a song titled "Barack Obama" in support of the US Presidential candidate by the same name. Cocoa Tea's song "Jah Made Them That Way" from his 1984 album Rocking Dolly interpolates "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson and "Answer Mi Question" by Dillinger.

Jesusa Purificación Sonora (born July 28, 1941), better known as Susan Rocés, is a Filipina actress and widow of Ronald Allan Kelley Poe, better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. Following the death of her husband in 2004, Rocés became a rallying point for the political opposition in the Philippines.

She was also one of the main cast members of John En Shirley, a comedy show that aired on ABS-CBN till October 2007.

Born to a French American mother and a Filipino father of Spanish and Chinese descent, Rocés is a member of one of the country’s biggest clans, the Locsin family of Negros Occidental. Their forebear Wo Sin Lok, a peddler from Amoy, had himself baptised Agustin Locsin and married Cecilia Sayson of Molo.

Rocés's sister, Rosemarie Sonora, and niece Sheryl Cruz are also actresses.

Rocés married Fernando Poe, Jr. and they have an adopted daughter, The Current MTRCB Chairman, Grace Poe-Llamanzares.

On June 2005, she was one of the key figures calling for the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In a fiery speech, she claimed that "She stole the presidency not once, but twice!"