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2019
Jan 26 Australia Day celebrations
Jan 26 Australia Day Pool Party at Splashez
Jan 26 Australia Day Amazing Race
Jan 26 Camooweal Lawnmower Racing for Australia Day
Jan 30 Ron and Brenda go Country, Stand up comedy Civic Centre
Feb 2 Sign On Expo, Buchanan Park Exhibition Centre 9am
Feb 14 Valentine’s Day
Feb 16 10th Anniversary Ronald McDonald House Charity Ball Mount Isa
Mar 2 Mount Isa Races
Mar 7 Cloncurry rugby 10s
Mar 9 Zonta International Women’s Day Dinner, Mount Isa
Mar 9 Carole King’s Tapestry Music Theatre, Morning Melodies and evening performance
Mar 16 Mount Isa St Patrick’s Day Races
Mar 23 Cloncurry races
Mar 23 Black and White Masquerade Ball
Mar 23 Battle at the Stack
Mar 30 Paws Hoofs and Claws Fundraiser
Mar 30 Winton races
Apr 6 Maxwelton races
Apr 6 Mount Isa Hospital Ball
Apr 12-14 Dirt N Dust Festival, Julia Creek
Apr 13 Julia Creek races
Apr 20 Boulia races
Apr 20 Yelvertoft campdraft and rodeo
Apr 24-28 Way Out West, Winton
Apr 27 Mount Isa Races
Apr 27 Karumba Barra Centre official opening TBA
May 4 Richmond Bush Sprints
May 4 Gregory races
May 5 Gregory Canoe Classic
May 10 Birdsville Campdraft, Rodeo and Bronco Branding
May 11 Mount Isa Races
May 18 Hughenden Races
May 24 Barkly Highway State School Diamond Jubilee Fete
May 25 Mount Isa Races
May 25 Barkly Highway State School Diamond Jubilee Gala Evening
May 26 Superhero Scramble
May 30-Jun 1 Minex Mount Isa, Buchanan Park
May 31-Jun 2 Camooweal campdraft
Jun 1 Cloncurry races
Jun 8 Mount Isa Cup Races
June 8-9 Duchess Dusk to Dawn
Jun 14-15 Richmond Field Days
Jun 14-15 40th annual Cloncurry Show
Jun 15 Richmond races
Jun 21-22 Mount Isa show
Jun 22 Bedourie Rugby League Nines
Jun 22 McKinlay Races
Jun 22-30 Great Western Games
Jun 27-30 Saxby Round- Up
Jun 29 Mount Isa Races
Jun 29 Birdsville Horse and Motorbike Gymkhana
Jun 30 Great Western Games Dash or Dawdle
Jul 6 Bedourie Campdraft, Rodeo, Gymkhana and Bronco Branding
Jul 13 Bedourie Camel Races
Jul 16-18 Birdsville Big Red Bash
Jul 17 Possum Magic Children’s theatre, Civic Centre
Jul 19-21 Boulia Camel Races
Jul 26-27 Queensland Music Festival, Buchanan Park
Jul 27 Quamby Rodeo
Jul 27 Winton camel races
Aug 1 Madame Butterfly Opera Civic Centre
Aug 2-3 Cloncurry Merry Muster festival
Aug 3-4 Red Dirt Relay for Life, Richmond, Charlie Wehlow Oval
Aug 9-11 Mount Isa Rodeo
Aug 23-25 Camooweal Drovers Festival
Aug 25 Mount Isa Motor Show and Swap Meet
Aug 30-31 North West Health Expo
Sep 15-16 Barkly Challenge Gecko
Sep 19-23 Winton Outback Festival
Sep 28 Sunglasses at Night - The 80's Apocalypse Singalong Cabaret Civic Centre
Sep 29 Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride
Oct 25-27 Lake Moondarra Fishing Classic
Oct 31 Halloween
Dec 25 Christmas Day
Dec 31 New Year’s Eve
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.
