Henley-on-Todd Regatta
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.
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"The 12th annual Red CentreNATS transforms Alice Springs into a four-day automotive spectacle of burnouts, drag racing and Show 'n' Shine competitions set against the iconic desert backdrop, drawing car and bike enthusiasts from across Australia to the Red Centre."
Red CentreNATS
"Presented by Desart, Desert Mob is Alice Springs' landmark Aboriginal art festival, bringing together hundreds of artists from desert communities across Central Australia to celebrate and sell their work in the heart of the continent."
Desert Mob
"The Katherine Show is the Top End's premier agricultural show, bringing together the cattle station and bush communities of the Katherine region for three days of livestock judging, rodeo, trade displays and family entertainment in the heart of tropical outback Australia."
Katherine Show
"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."
Broken Heel 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
"Born from a 1990s drought, this Riverina plains gathering is a Guinness-record-chasing celebration of the Australian ute, blue singlets and bush culture, annually mustering over 20,000 devotees for circle work, bumper-sticker culture and live country music."
Deniliquin Ute Muster
"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
"A genuine intercontinental folk custom dating from 1962, in which Stroud NSW competes annually against its sister towns in England, USA and Canada by hurling bricks and rolling pins, with a bicentenary street parade added for 2026."
Stroud Brick and Rolling Pin Throwing Competition