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Broome's 50-year-old Festival of the Pearl weaves the town's pearling and multicultural heritage into a fortnight of dragon parades, floating lantern releases, a 400-seat long-table dinner on Cable Beach sand, pearl-meat cook-offs and traditional dance performances.
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"Regarded as Australia's largest regional food festival, this 16-day celebration roams from Carnarvon's mango plantations to remote outback stations and Dirk Hartog Island, pairing long-table dinners, fireside storytelling and prawn-led food trails with the spectacular landscapes of the Gascoyne."
Gascoyne Food Festival
"A Wheatbelt institution since the 1960s, this two-day farmer-first field day packs machinery demonstrations, Merino stud rams, a lifestyle pavilion and a buzzing community lunch into a small grain-country town that lives for the occasion."
Dowerin Machinery Field Days
"Held in the heart of WA's Wildflower Country, this four-day community festival fills Mullewa Town Hall with hundreds of labelled native specimens, pairs guided bushland walks with expert talks, and celebrates the Midwest's extraordinary floral diversity through workshops, art and country hospitality."
Outback Bloom - Mullewa's Wildflower Festival
"Run by volunteers since 1972 in the Eastern Great Southern, this two-day field day blends world-class agricultural machinery displays with a Young Farmers Challenge, wool fashion parade and a fireworks finale that closes the first evening."
Newdegate Machinery Field Days
"Billed as the largest wildflower show of its kind in the world, this 13-day celebration in the heart of the UNESCO-listed Fitzgerald Biosphere fills a volunteer-run herbarium with pressed specimens and surrounds visitors with the extraordinary floral diversity of the Ravensthorpe Range."
Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show
"Held on one of WA's most historic and scenic showgrounds, this long-running one-day show brings together cattle, sheep, home produce, fruit, vegetables, apiculture, local art and craft, sideshows and live entertainment in a convivial Avon Valley town."
Toodyay Agricultural Show
"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
"Every November, the historic port town of Queenscliff comes alive with an eclectic mix of contemporary, blues and folk artists at this beloved coastal music festival inside the Victorian-era fort and foreshore."
Queenscliff Music Festival
"Singleton's main street becomes Santa Claus Lane for one festive night, with fireworks, live music, food stalls and community performances filling the Hunter Valley country town with Christmas cheer."
Christmas on John Street
"The Riverina irrigation town of Leeton marks the start of Christmas with the official switching-on of lights across 200-plus decorated homes and businesses, anchored by a community market and live concert in Mountford Park."
Light Up Leeton
"Lobethal's Main Street comes alive each 23 December with a beloved community procession of illuminated floats, marching bands and festive characters that has anchored the Adelaide Hills Christmas calendar for generations."
Lobethal Christmas Pageant
"Held annually at Woodfordia on the Sunshine Coast hinterland over six days and nights spanning New Year, this long-running village folk gathering brings together more than 1,800 artists and musicians on its own forested site."
Woodford Folk Festival