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2019
Mar 16 Mount Isa St Patrick’s Day Races
Mar 16 10th Anniversary Ronald McDonald House Charity Ball Mount Isa, Lumen Christi Centre (rescheduled)
Mar 17 Curry Day, Mary K Park, 3pm
Mar 21 2019 Outback Comedy Gala Cloncurry, 7pm
Mar 22 Movie Night at John Flynn Place
Mar 23 Cloncurry races
Mar 23 Black and White Masquerade Ball
Mar 23 Battle at the Stack
Mar 23 2019 Outback Comedy Gala, Boulia, 7pm
Mar 24 2019 Outback Comedy Gala, Mount Isa Civic Centre, 7.30pm
Mar 28 Welcoming Babies Day, Mount Isa Civic Centre 10am-noon
Mar 30 Paws Hoofs and Claws Fundraiser
Mar 30 Winton races
Apr 3 The Sapphires, Mount Isa Civic Centre
Apr 5-7 Sisters of the North Campdraft and Gala dinner
Apr 6 Mount Isa Hospital Ball
Apr 12-14 Dirt N Dust Festival, Julia Creek
Apr 12 Movie Night at John Flynn Place
Apr 13 Julia Creek races
Apr 18-21 Einasleigh Easter races and rodeo
Apr 20 Boulia races
Apr 20 Yelvertoft campdraft and rodeo
Apr 24-28 Way Out West, Winton
Apr 25 Anzac Day
Apr 27 Mount Isa Races
May 4 Richmond Bush Sprints
May 4 Gregory races
May 5 Gregory Canoe Classic
May 4-5 Karumba Barra and Blues Festival
May 10 Birdsville Campdraft, Rodeo and Bronco Branding
May 11 Mount Isa Races
May 18 Hughenden Races
May 18 Cloncurry Multicultural Festival
May 23 Cloncurry Sunday Markets
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 1 MUTU Reconciliation Festival, Cloncurry
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 19 90th Birthday of the Pedal Radio, Cloncurry
Jun 21-22 Mount Isa show
Jun 22 Bedourie Rugby League Nines
Jun 22 McKinlay Races
Jun 22-28 Great Western Games
Jun 23 Cloncurry Sunday Markets
Jun 27-30 Saxby Round- Up
June 25-27 Outback Writer’s Festival Winton
Jun 25-27 Mount Isa Blast, Buchanan Park
Jun 29 Mount Isa Races
June 29-July 6 Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival Winton
Jun 29 Birdsville Horse and Motorbike Gymkhana
Jun 30 Great Western Games Dash or Dawdle
Jul 5-6 Rockhana Gem and Mineral Festival
Jul 6 Bedourie Campdraft, Rodeo, Gymkhana and Bronco Branding
Jul 10-14 Cloncurry Stockman’s Challenge and Campdraft
July 12-13 Opal festival Winton
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 23 Mount Isa JCU Open Day & Health Careers Expo
Jul 26-27 Queensland Music Festival, Buchanan Park
Jul 27 Quamby Rodeo
Jul 27 Winton camel races
Jul 28 Cloncurry Sunday Markets
Aug 1 Madame Butterfly Opera Civic Centre
Aug 2-4 65th Annual Curry Merry Muster Festival
Aug 3-4 Red Dirt Relay for Life, Richmond, Charlie Wehlow Oval
Aug 7 Isa Street Festival
Aug 8 Mount Isa Races
Aug 8 Mount Isa Mailman Express
Aug 8-11 Mount Isa Rodeo
Aug 19-25 Seniors Week
Aug 23-25 Camooweal Drovers Festival
Aug 25 Cloncurry Sunday Markets
Aug 25 Mount Isa Motor Show and Swap Meet
Aug 30-31 North West Health Expo
Aug 31 Centenary of Cloncurry RSL
Sep 4-8 Cloncurry Beat the Heat Festival
Sep 7 Cloncurry race day (TBC)
Sep 15-16 Barkly Challenge Gecko
Sep 20-22 Dajarra Campdraft and Rodeo
Sep 24-28 Winton Outback Festival
Sep 28 Sunglasses at Night - The 80's Apocalypse Singalong Cabaret Civic Centre
Sep 29 Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride
Oct 4 John Flynn Place 31st Birthday
Oct 12 Cloncurry Race Day (TBC)
Oct 25-27 Lake Moondarra Fishing Classic
Oct 31 Halloween
Nov 2 Cloncurry Race Day (TBC)
Nov 11 Remembrance Day
Nov 29 Cloncurry Christmas Festival
Nov 29-30 Cloncurry Christmas Markets
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.
