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Mar 16 Welcoming Babies Day, Mount Isa
Mar 16 Derby Day Buffs Club
Mar 17 Mount Isa races St Patrick’s Day
Mar 18 Curry Day, Mary Kathleen Park, 3pm
Mar 18 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Mar 18 Shave for a Cure Buffs Club
Mar 20 Digital Innovation Launch Day Julia Creek
Mar 21 BMP Grazing, Clonagh via Cloncurry
Mar 23 Good Shepherd College Easter Fete
Mar 24 Cloncurry races
Mar 27 Nelia Mitchell Grass Field Day
Mar 29 Easter Disco Buffs Club
Mar 23 - Mar 29 Youth Week
Mar 30 - Apr 2 Easter weekend
Mar 31 - Apr 1 Normanton Barra Classic
Mar 31 Boulia races
Mar 31 Yelvertoft Rodeo
Apr 1 Easter Market Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
April 1 Easter Bunny visit - Rodeo Queen Entrants
Apr 6-9 The 2018 Australian Campdraft Association National Finals, Burke & Wills Sports Club
Apr 7 Maxwelton races
Apr 7-9 Karumba Anglers Classic
Apr 7-8 Betoota Gymkhana at Birdsville
Apr 13-15 Dirt N Dust Festival Julia Creek
Apr 13-17 Einasleigh Rodeo
Apr 14 Julia Creek races
Apr 14 Bedourie Bikes and Bulls
Apr 14-17 World Barramundi Fishing Championships Burketown
Apr 15 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Apr 19-22 Winton Way Out West festival
Apr 21 Winton races
Apr 27 Pastures, Productivity & Pest Forum, Julia Creek
Apr 28 Mount Isa races
Apr 28 Big Toys YPA
Apr 28-29 Camooweal cricket sixes competition
May 4-6 Richmond Outback Fossil Festival and Bush Sprints
May 4-6 Barcaldine Tree of Knowledge Festival
May 5 Gregory Downs Races
May 5-6 Boulia Rodeo
May 6 Gregory Canoe Classic
May 6 Mother’s Day market Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
May 11 St Kieran's Mother's Day Fete 6-9pm
May 12 Mother’s Day high tea, Terrace Gardens 10am
May 12 Mount Isa races
May 12-13 Birdsville Campdraft, Rodeo and Bronco Branding
May 16-19 The 90th RFDS Outback Birthday Bash at John Flynn Place
May 19 Hughenden races
May 20 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
May 25-Jun 2 Mount Isa Eisteddfod
May 26 Mount Isa races
May 26 MTB Stack City Fountain Springs Classic
Jun 1-3 Camooweal’s campdraft & rodeo
Jun 3 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Jun 2 Cloncurry Races
Jun 2 Mount Isa Special School Masquerade Ball
Jun 2 50 Shades of Special Needs Masquerade Ball
Jun 7-10 Normanton Rodeo and Campdraft
Jun 8-10 Winton Show
Jun 9 Mount Isa Races: Mount Isa Cup
Jun 9 Bedourie Rugby League Nines
Jun 10-17 Croydon Heritage Week
Jun 15-17 Cloncurry Show
Jun 15-16 Richmond Field Days
Jun 16 Richmond races
Jun 16 Hughenden Porcupine Gorge Challenge
Jun 17 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Jun 22-23 Mount Isa Show
Jun 23-25 Croydon Poddy Dodgers Festival
Jun 26- 28 Outback Writers’ Festival in Winton
Jun 29- July 7 Splendid Outback Film Festival at Winton
Jun 30 Mount Isa races
Jun 30 Richmond Pony Express (Dirt Bike Enduro)
Jun 30 Filipino Barrio Fiesta, Tony White Oval
Jun 30 Rockhana mineral festival, Mary K Park, Cloncurry
Jul 1 Stamford Races and Community Fun Day
Jul 1 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Jul 6-8 Bedourie Campdraft, rodeo, gymkhana and bronco branding
Jul 7-8 Winton QBOA Opal Festival
Jul 10-12 Big Red Bash, Birdsville
Jul 13-16 Cloncurry Stockmans Challenge
Jul 14 Bedourie Camel and Pig Races
Jul 14 Mount Isa races
Jul 15 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Jul 15 Mount Isa Motor Show and Swap Meet
Jul 20-22 Boulia Camel Races
Jul 28-30 Hughenden Country Music Festival
Jul 28 Quamby Rodeo
Aug 2-5 Curry Merry Muster Festival
Aug 5 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Aug 8 Isa Street Festival
Aug 8-12 Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo
Aug 9 Mailman Express races
Aug 16-19 Gulf Frontier Days Festival
Aug 17-19 Sedan Dip Rodeo
Aug 18 Mount Isa races
Aug 19 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Aug 24-25 Camooweal Drovers Camp Festival
Aug 25 Betoota races
Aug 25 Simpson Desert Racing Carnival at Birdsville
Aug 31- Sep 1 Richmond Campdraft
Aug 31-Sep 1 Birdsville races
Sep 2 Father’s Day markets Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Sep 7 Mount Isa Multicultural Festival
Sep 8-9 Bedourie Races & Rodeo
Sep 8-9 Bedourie Ute & Travellers’ Muster
Sep 9 Pink Tatas Run, Lake Moondarra
Sep 16 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Sep 19-23 Outback Century Cycle Challenge Winton
Sep 29 Richmond Fishing Classic
Oct 6 Mount Isa Spring Cup races
Oct 7 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Oct 20 Mount Isa races (TBC)
Oct 20 Spring Charity Evening Mount Isa
Oct 21 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Oct 26-28 Lake Moondarra Fishing Classic
Nov 4 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Nov 6 Mount Isa races
Nov 18 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Dec 1 Mount Isa races
Dec 2 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Dec 16 Mount Isa Community Markets, Overlander Hotel
Dec 25 Christmas Day
Dec 31 New year’s Eve Rodeo
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.
