A La Carte in the Park, is the Gold Coast’s biggest food and wine event. Usually in Mid June each year held at Mitchell Park, Southport, overlooking the beautiful Broadwater precinct. It’s a great opportunity to sample plates of food and drink from a range of Gold Coast's restaurants. Usually it is a very busy day depending on time and weather. Featured are a vast array of food booths featur...

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The Aberdeen Highland Games is held on the first weekend of July each year. Celebrate the Scottish heritage and traditions of the first founders of Aberdeen at the Aberdeen Highland Games. The games begin with a street parade featureing 12 pipe bands, clan societies and various floats. The procession moves from the main street into Jefferson Park for the opening of the games.

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All under the one roof at South Australia’s creative heart, the Adelaide Festival Centre, you can experience the Adelaide Cabaret Festival every June beginning on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend and continuing for 16 nights of music, satire, comedy, performance art and dancing the night away. Over the last nine years the Festival has become a major event in the international and Australian A...

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Ag-Grow QMIX in Emerald is one of the most successful marketing events available to businesses wishing to access the agricultural, mining and associated demographic of Central Western Queensland and beyond. Now recognized as an event of events it has grown to become not just one of the largest spending field days on the national circuit but a social event of the year for the surrounding regions. I...

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The Alexandra Truck Ute and Rod Show is conducted over 2 kilometres in Grant Street, Alexandra on the Sunday of the Queen's Birthday long weekend. It is a free public event held on the bitumen in Grant Street Alexandra and surrounds. The Alexandra Truck, Ute and Rod Show is a great family day out and regularly attracts an attendance of about 12,000 people. For families there is plenty to see, lot...

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Ever since The Central Australian Show Society organized the Alice Springs Show for the first time in 1960, it has been a source of great entertainment for all the family. People of all ages wait eagerly for this Alice Springs festival and join in the celebration with full fervor. Originally the Alice Springs Show was organized to adhere to the tradition followed in all major rural centers arou...

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Altona, just 8km from Melbourne CBD, holds its annual Bayside Festival on the third weekend in March. The festival is a community based festival that celebrates diversity in the stunning surrounds of the Altona Foreshore and Cherry Lake reserves. The festival program includes an art show, craft market, home craft show, cooking demonstrations, pet show, baby show, swimming carnival, carnival rides...

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Enjoy a great day out at the Annual Vintage Sports Car Rally, Yarra Track, held on the first week of June every year. Here you can witness men and women in their magnificent driving machines, 1920’s and 1930’s sports cars, as they are being put through their paces. There are plenty of opportunities to see vintage cars on display but few where you see them in competition as they manoeuvre up ...

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The favourite bush pastime of a rodeo is an integral part of the story told in the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame. This, along with a long-standing association with the APRA (Australian Professional Rodeo Association) has resulted in a joining of forces to bring a professional rodeo to the Hall of Fame. The Pro Rodeo is part of the northern run to Cloncurry and Mount Isa for the rodeo circ...

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Orchid enthusiasts from across Australia converge on Ararat every September as the 'The Orchid City' hosts the Australian National Cymbidium Show at the Ararat Performing Arts Centre. You can see hundreds of Cymbidium orchids on display in the historic hall with spectacular colour and beauty, including many new hybrids, some old vintage favourites and specimen plants. The two-day festival is a...

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Ararat Performing Arts Centre & Ararat Theatre Company jointly host this annual, amateur one act play festival. The festival is an open competition for the state championship and is always held on the first weekend in August. Competition is of a very high standard, with theatre companies from across Victoria and interstate competing for the coveted "Bert Bates Memorial Trophy" for best play. Th...

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This show, a great country occasion held in early July each year, features thrill rides, stalls, competitions, exhibitions, showbags and more! Fun for the whole family. Showcasing the diverse produce and attractions of the fertile Tablelands, this is a true country show. This show is colourful and unique. From the Greasy Pole Climb and Spaghetti Eating Contest at Ingham’s Australian Italian ...

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The Australian Art & Craft Show is an annual event held in Canberra on the first week of August every year. This show has developed a reputation for quality and affordability of art and craft products, including paintings, glass, ceramics, weaving and woodwork. It is also a forum for local artists to show their skills and for emerging artists to display their work for the first time. The essence...

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The Australian Body Art Carnivale promises a tantalising showcase of body artists from all over Australasia, held in mid May every year. The Carnivale presents body artistry in all its forms with workshops, exhibitions and performances in this ancient art form. During the Carnivale the whole township of Eumundi comes alive with music and is themed with body art. The inaugural Body Art Carniva...

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Australian Calisthenic Federation National Championships is a annual event held in mid July each year. This event showcases a wide variety of skills such as dance, singing, gymnastics, marching and ballet at the most prestigious theatre in South Australia. Competitors from across Australia take part in this unique artistic dance-sport. See elite teams from each state perform everything from gra...

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The Australian Craft Show Sydney is Australia's most innovative and contemporary craft event in Australia. The event is usually held in mid August and brings together more than 200 retailers under one roof. Presentations include fashion parades and demonstrations to show how traditional craft techniques are influencing the most cutting-edge fashion and lifestyle trends.

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Australian Earth Sciences Convention is Australia's premier geoscience conference and a major event on the international geoscience annual calendar, held in early July each year. The program represents an historic joining of forces of the formerly separate Australian Geological Convention and the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists - Conference and Exhibition.

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Every year the tropical city of Townsville in northern Queensland hosts the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. This event is held over twelve days each July. Many of Australia's finest chamber musicians assemble to perform some rewarding and often challenging music. Each year the Festival attracts between 20 and 30 soloists and chamber musicians from around the world to give concerts and teach...

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The Australian Masters Squash Championships is a major event on the Australian Squash Calendar, open to professional squash players from Australia only and offering them a great opportunity to compete for precious world rankings points. The Championships also, held each year in early September, include the Australian graded titles for amateur players.

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To celebrate the anniversary of the first steam train to the end of the Never Never line on 4 September 1929, this historic pilgrimage starts at the Larrimah Wayside Inn and travels to the Daly Waters Railway Terrace in Mid September . This is where the line was originally supposed to end. However, the line was never extended further than Birdum and it became known as the line that went to nowhere...

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