"The largest event on the Australian opal circuit, staged in the remote outback mining town of Lightning Ridge, with gem stalls, opal expositions and competitions celebrating the region's mining heritage."

Lightning Ridge Opal and Gem Festival

"The tiny Central Queensland gemstone-fossicking hamlet of Sapphire hosts an annual celebration of its sapphire and zircon mining heritage, with gem markets, fossicking competitions, live music and outback campfire camaraderie."

Gemfields Festival

"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

"Every spring the clifftop fields at Table Cape erupt in vivid rows of tulips with sweeping Bass Strait views, drawing visitors from across Australia to walk the blooming paddocks above the north-west Tasmanian coast."

Table Cape Tulip Festival

"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

"The Midlands convict-era town of Oatlands, home to Australia's greatest concentration of Georgian sandstone buildings, marks its heritage with a bullock parade, vintage machinery, artisan crafts and heritage trades demonstrations."

Oatlands Heritage Festival

"One of Australia's greatest steam gatherings, held on a permanent private rally ground where 65-plus individual engine sheds house magnificent collections of traction engines, sawmills and earthmoving machinery that fire up twice a year in a living paddock museum."

128th Lake Goldsmith Steam & Vintage Rally

"Glen Innes's Celtic-heritage town centre glows through the entire summer holiday season with a Christmas Art Trail of community-made banner artworks and an Illuminations night lighting the historic Town Hall and parklands."

Christmas in the Highlands - Illuminations

"For over 60 years the village of Lobethal has transformed its Adelaide Hills valley into the largest community-run Christmas lights display in the Southern Hemisphere, complete with a Living Nativity performed nightly with real animals."

Lights of Lobethal Festival

"Australia's largest regular gathering of working steam road traction engines, held beside Sheffield's historic railway station each March long weekend with threshing, stone crushing, a tractor pull, bullock teams and a grand daily parade of everything that moves."

SteamFest Sheffield

"Celebrating its founding poet in Australia's most intact gold-rush streetscape, this long-running festival fills twelve closed blocks with a street parade, bush dancing, heritage games, performance poetry at the 1871 Prince of Wales Opera House, and a country race meeting."

Gulgong Henry Lawson Heritage Festival