Broken Heel Festival
Outback Broken Hill annually transforms into a glittering tribute to the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert, with drag performances, lip-sync battles, costume pageants and sequinned cabaret spilling through the silver-mining city's heritage streets.
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"An iconic outback music and camping festival on the vast Mundi Mundi Plains outside the ghost-town of Silverton, famous for its world-record dance attempts and sunsets over the Barrier Ranges backdrop used in countless films."
Mundi Mundi Bash
"A week-long winter celebration of Griffith's Italian migrant heritage, featuring traditional cooking, a salami-making competition and the festive Festa delle Salsicce community banquet."
A Taste of Italy
"A three-day Hunter Valley barrel-tasting celebration set among the vineyards that made Australian wine famous, mixing winemaker banquets and barbecues with axe throwing, carriage tours and live music."
D'Vine Food and Wine Festival
"A one-day showcase of Mudgee's acclaimed wine and produce region, where local growers, winemakers and chefs celebrate the Central West harvest in the historic colonial town."
Flavours of Mudgee
"A ticketed Southern Highlands food and wine celebration held over the October long weekend, where entry includes wine, distillery and cheese tastings, live music and a take-home festival glass amid the crisp tablelands air."
Horizontal Festival
"Every October long weekend a kelpie-driven flock of sheep runs down the main street of this small Hilltops town in a joyous parody of Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, set against a programme of Celtic music, wool crafts and country hospitality."
Boorowa Irish Woolfest and Running of the Sheep
"The world's only dry-river boat race sees teams carry bottomless craft down the sandy bed of the usually waterless Todd River, a deadpan parody of the Royal Henley Regatta staged 1,500 kilometres from any ocean."
Henley-on-Todd Regatta
"Every two years the dinosaur-fossil capital of Australia hosts this five-day outback fiesta whose signature event is the 200-metre Dunny Derby, in which teams of five push, pull and ride a decorated toilet through an obstacle course in the red dust of Elderslie Street."
Winton Outback Festival and Dunny Derby
"A small far-north Queensland coastal town embraces unexplained phenomena each August with an Alien Invasion costume party, high-powered telescope sessions, the C-Files UFO Forum and a kids Space Race treasure hunt."
Cardwell UFO Festival