Tara Festival of Culture and Camel Races
Every two years the tiny Western Downs town of Tara hosts Australia's biggest camel party, drawing 10,000 people to a three-day cultural carnival of professional camel racing, multicultural stage shows, fireworks and massed camping on the edge of outback Queensland.
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"A classic outback bushmans carnival in the remote Channel Country hamlet of Stonehenge, featuring stockhorse events, campdraft, bush races, whip cracking and the warm hospitality of a community that still celebrates the rhythms of station life."
Stonehenge Bushmans Carnival
"Organised by the Tiaro State School P&C Association, this community bull ride at the Tiaro Recreational Grounds is a quintessential Fraser Coast country-town rodeo that funds local education."
Tiaro Rodeo
"A four-day campdraft, rodeo and country hospitality weekend held at Cashel Vale Road in the remote Balonne floodplains, one of outback Queensland's most authentic annual stock-horse gatherings."
Bollon Campdraft and Rodeo
"Celebrating its 144th year, this legendary two-day thoroughbred race carnival draws over 6,000 racegoers to one of the most remote towns in Australia, combining serious prize money with three nights of live entertainment in the Cooper Creek outback."
Birdsville Races
"Named after Ted Egan's beloved bush ballad, this outback one-day roundup in Queensland's far south-west combines rodeo action, campdrafting and country hospitality in the wool and cattle town of Cunnamulla."
Cunnamulla Fella Roundup
"Australia's only dedicated camp oven festival gathers bush cooks, billy boilers and damper throwers in the small Darling Downs town of Millmerran to celebrate iron-pot cooking traditions with competitions, bush poetry and working machinery demonstrations."
Australian Camp Oven Festival