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May 26 - Jun 5 Mount Isa Irish Club Eisteddfod at Civic Centre
May 27 Hughenden races
May 27 Sundowners event (kup-murri dinner, Kalkatungu performance), Island Bowls Club
May 27 Fountain Springs Mountain Bike Classic
May 27 RFDS & LifeFlight Open Day, Airport hangar
May 28 Dash or Dawdle, Lake Moondarra
Jun 2-4 Camooweal Campdraft and Rodeo
Jun 3 Mount Isa Cup races
Jun 3-4 Hughenden Show
Jun 4 Colours for Cancer, Lake Moondarra 9am
Jun 4 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Jun 6 Queensland Day
Jun 8-11 Normanton Rodeo
Jun 9-10 Richmond Field Days
Jun 10 Richmond races
Jun 11 Birdsville Rugby Nines
Jun 15 Cloncurry Cattleman’s Dinner
Jun 16-17 Cloncurry Show
Jun 18 Duchess Dusk to Dawn run
Jun 18 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Jun 23-24 Mount Isa Show
Jun 23-Jul 2 Winton Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival
Jun 24 Mount Isa races
Jun 24 Birdsville Motorbike and Horse Gymkhana
Jun 24-30 Cairns to Karumba bike ride
Jun 24-Jul 2 Glencore Great Western Games across the region
Jun 25 Julia Creek races
Jun 30-Jul 2 Saxby Round-Up
Jun 30-Jul 2 Rockhana Gem and Mineral Festival in Cloncurry
Jul 1 Stamford races
Jul 1-2 Bedourie Campdraft, Rodeo, Bronco Branding and Gymkhana
Jul 2 Mount Isa community Winter Wonderland markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Jul 2-9 NAIDOC Week
Jul 4-6 Big Red Bash
Jul 8 Mount Isa races
Jul 8 Bedourie Camel races
Jul 9 Mount Isa Motor Show & Swap Meet
Jul 12-16 Cloncurry Stockman’s Challenge
Jul 14-16 Boulia Camel Races
Jul 15 Hughenden races
Jul 16 Mount Isa community Winter Wonderland markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Jul 22 Mount Isa's Strongest Man and Woman Barkly Hotel 1pm
Jul 22 McKinlay races
Jul 22 Winton camel races
Jul 23 Outback to the Stack running festival
Jul 29-31 Hughenden Country Music Festival
Jul 29 Julia Creek races
Jul 30 Quamby Rodeo
Jul TBA Zonta One Million Stars
Aug 3-6 Cloncurry Merry Muster
Aug 5 Corfield races
Aug 6 Mount Isa community Rodeo markets
10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Aug 9 Isa Street party featuring Jessica Mauboy
Aug 10 Mailman Express races Mount Isa
Aug 11-13 Mount Isa Rodeo
Aug 18-20 Sedan Dip campdraft, rodeo, races
Aug 18-Sep 9 Rinse the Blood of my Toga MITS comedy production
Aug 19 Mount Isa races
Aug 20 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Aug 25-27 Camooweal Drovers Camp Festival
Aug 25-26 Mount Isa Health Expo, Civic Centre
Aug 26 Camooweal races
Sep 1-2 Birdsville Races
Sep 3 Mount Isa community Fathers Day markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Sep 8-9 Bedourie Races and Rodeo
Sep 9 Julia Creek races
Sep 15-22 Cloncurry 150 years celebration
Sep 16 Winton races
Sep 17 Run with Dad, Mount Isa prostate cancer fundraiser
Sep 17 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Sep 19-23 Outback Festival, Winton
Sep 23 Cloncurry races
Sep 29 - Oct 1 Morning Glory festival Burketown
Sep 30 - Oct 1 Burketown Rodeo
Sep 30 Mount Isa Spring Cup races
Oct 1 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Oct 7 Richmond races
Oct 14 Cloncurry races
Oct 15 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Oct 21 Mount Isa Breast Cancer Race Day
Oct 27- Nov 18 Right to Remain Dead MITS comedy production
Oct 27-29 Lake Moondarra Fishing Classic
Oct 28 Richmond races
Nov 4 Cloncurry races
Nov 5 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Nov 7 Melbourne Cup day races Mount Isa
Nov 18 Paws Hoofs and Claws Animal Masquerade Ball, Overlander Hotel
Nov 18 Julia Creek races
Nov 19 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Dec 2 Mount Isa races
Dec 3 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Dec 17 Mount Isa community Christmas markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Dec 25 Christmas Day
2018
Mar 3 Mount Isa races
Mar 17 Mount Isa races St Patrick’s Day
Mar 24 Cloncurry races
Mar 30 - Apr 2 Easter weekend
Mar 31 Boulia races
Apr 6-8 Dirt N Dust Festival Julia Creek
Apr 7 Julia Creek races
Apr 14 Maxwelton races
Apr 21 Winton races
Apr 28 Mount Isa races
May 12 Mount Isa races
May 19 Hughenden races
May 26 Mount Isa races
Jun 9 Mount Isa races Mount Isa Cup
Jun 30 Mount Isa races
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
