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Nov 17 Board Games night, Mount Isa Baptist Church, 6.30pm
Nov 18: Mount Isa Harley Owners Group Annual Toy Run, Outback At Isa, 8am for 9am ride.
Nov 18: Mount Isa Ambulance Open day
Nov 18: Hughenden Golf Club Pink Charity Golf Day
Nov 18: Community Markets, Hughenden Discovery Park, 8.30am
Nov 18 Julia Creek races
Nov 18 Boys Night Out with Billy Moore, Cloncurry Community Precinct
Nov 18 Mount Isa Campdraft come and try day
Nov 19 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Nov 21 Election forum at Spinifex State School
Nov 22 Matty Bowen visits Healy State School for Try for Five Program
Nov 22 Injilinji Community Kindergarten Open Day, 10 Thomson Road, 9 - 11am
Nov 23 Blue Care Christmas Party at Overlander Hotel
Nov 24-25 Mount Isa School of Dance Concert 'Arabian Nights' Civic Centre 7pm
Nov 24 Cloncurry Christmas Festival in the Park
Nov 25 Camooweal Rodeo 2pm
Nov 25 Cloncurry Christmas markets
Nov 25 Queensland election
Nov 26 Bush Christmas Arts and Crafts Fair, Outback at Isa
Nov 26 Christmas High Tea at Terrace Gardens
Nov 28 Commerce North West AGM and Christmas drinks, Buffs Club 5.30pm
Dec 1 McKinlay Shire Christmas Tree, Julia Creek
Dec 2 Mount Isa races
Dec 2nd: DiLi - Dream it, Live it end of year Showcase
Dec 3 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Dec 3 Mount Isa Carols by Candlelight, Buchanan Park 6pm
Dec 9 Mayors Christmas Wine Tree, Civic Centre 6.30pm
Dec 10 Mount Isa Christmas Lights Cavalcade, 7pm Barkly Hotel car park
Dec 16 Christmas in the Park Twilight Markets 5-9pm Skate Park
Dec 16 Cloncurry Christmas Rodeo
Dec 25 Christmas Day
Dec 31 New Year’s Eve Rodeo, Buchanan Park
2018
Jan 1 New Year’s Day
Feb 3 Super Sports Expo noon-3pm
Mar 3 Mount Isa races
Mar 6 Commonwealth Games baton in Cloncurry
Mar 6 Commonwealth Games baton in Mount Isa
Mar 7 Commonwealth Games baton in Birdsville
Mar 11 Commonwealth Games baton in Hughenden
Mar 12 Commonwealth Games baton in Prairie
Mar 17 Mount Isa races St Patrick’s Day
Mar 24 Cloncurry races
Mar 30 - Apr 2 Easter weekend
Mar 31 Boulia races
Mar 31 Yelvertoft Rodeo
Apr 7 Maxwelton races
Apr 7-9 Karumba Anglers Classic
Apr 13-15 Dirt N Dust Festival Julia Creek
Apr 13-17 Einasleigh Rodeo
Apr 14 Julia Creek races
Apr 14-17 World Barramundi Fishing Championships Burketown
Apr 19-22 Winton Way Out West festival
Apr 21 Winton races
Apr 28 Mount Isa races
Apr 28-29 Richmond Outback Fossil Festival
May 12 Mount Isa races
May 13-14 Birdsville Bronco Branding and Campdraft
May 19 Hughenden races
May 25-Jun 2 Mount Isa Eisteddfod
May 26 Mount Isa races
Jul 1-3 Hughenden Show
Jun 8-10 Winton Show
Jun 9 Mount Isa races Mount Isa Cup
Jun 10-17 Croydon Heritage Week
Jun 15-17 Cloncurry Show
Jun 15-16 Richmond field days
Jun 16 Richmond races
Jun 22-23 Mount Isa Show
Jun 23-25 Croydon Poddy Dodgers Festival
Jun 30 Mount Isa races
Jun 30- Jul 1 Bedourie Campdraft and Gymkhana
Jul 1 Stamford Races and Community Fun Day
Jul 7-8 Winton QBOA Opal Festival
Jul 8 Bedourie Camel races
Jul 10-12 Big Red Bash, Birdsville
Jul 13-16 Cloncurry Stockmans Challenge
Jul 13-16 Boulia Camel Races
Jul 22 Winton Camel Races
Jul 28-30 Hughenden Country Music Festival
Aug 2-5 Curry Merry Muster Festival
Aug 8 Isa Street Festival
Aug 9 Mailman Express races
Aug 10-12 Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo
Aug 24-26 Camooweal Drovers Camp Festival
Aug 25 Betoota races
Aug 31-Sep 1 Birdsville races
Sep 8-9 Bedourie Races & Rodeo
Sep 8-9 Bedourie Ute & Travellers’ Muster
Sep 19-23 Outback Century Cycle Challenge Winton
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.
