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Jan 26 Australia Day
Jan 26 Lawnmower racing, Camooweal
Jan 28 Paint party at the Buffs Club at 6pm
Feb 1 Sign on Expo, Entertainment Centre 9am-1pm
Feb 1 Eight Second Ride at Mount Isa Civic Centre at 7pm
Feb 8 Waitangi Day sports, Mount Isa Basketball stadium
Feb 15 Ronald McDonald North Queensland Charity Ball
Feb 29 Mount Isa Beach Races
Mar 6 Kooroorinya Races (Oakley Amateur Picnic Races), Prairie
Mar 6-28 MITS play Unnecessary Farce
Mar 14 Mount Isa St Patrick's Day races
Mar 21 Cloncurry races
Mar 28 Winton races
Apr 4 Maxwelton races
Apr 10 Good Friday
Apr 10 Campdraft 4 A Cause, Hughenden
Apr 11 Boulia races
Apr 12 Easter Sunday
Apr 17-19 Dirt N Dust festival Julia Creek
Apr 18 Julia Creek races
Apr 25 Anzac Day
Apr 25 Mount Isa Anzac Day Races
May 1-4 Boulia Christian Convention, Racecourse Reserve
May 2 Gregory races
May 2-3 MICE Jazz Band Bandana presents Grooving in the Grove, Adels Grove
May 3 Gregory Canoe Races
May 8 Hughenden State School Fete
May 8 Birdsville Campdraft, Rodeo and Bronco Branding
May 9 Mount Isa Mother's Day Races
May 23 Mount Isa Country Showcase Races
May 22-Jun 13 Animal Farm MITS play
May 29-31 Hughenden Show
May 30 Cloncurry races
Jun 6 Mount Isa Cup (races)
Jun 12-13 Cloncurry Show
Jun 12-13 Richmond Field Days
Jun 13 Richmond Races
Jun 13 Hughenden Porcupine Gorge Challenge
Jun 19-20 Mount Isa Show
Jun 20 McKinlay races
Jun 22-28 Festival of Outback Opera, Mount Isa
Jun 26-Jul 4 Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival, Winton
Jun 26-28 Hughenden Country Music Festival
Jun 27 Mount Isa Do It For Dolly Races
Jul 3 Bedourie Campdraft, Rodeo, Gymkhana
Jul 4 Stamford Races and Community Fun Day
Jul 6-12 Naidoc Week
Jul 7-9 Big Red Bash, Birdsville
Jul 8-12 Cloncurry Stockmans Challenge and Campdraft
Jul 11 Bedourie Camel Races
Jul 18 Outback Masters Golf, Hughenden
Jul 18 Boulia Camel Races
Jul 24-26 Million Dollar Hole in One, Longreach
Jul 25 Winton Camel Races
Jul 25 Quamby Rodeo
Jul 31- Aug 2 Curry Merry Muster
Aug 6-9 Mount Isa Mines Rodeo
Aug 15 Sedan Dip Rodeo
Aug 15 'Back to the 40s' Cloncurry WW2 experience, Cloncurry
Aug 18 Vietnam Veterans Day
Aug 21-23 Camooweal Drovers Festival
Aug 21-Sep 12 Drinking Habits MITS play
Aug 30 Mount Isa Motor Show & Swap Meet, Buchanan Park
Sep 4-5 Birdsville Races
Sep 4-5 Birdsville Beer Wine and Food Festival
Sep 12 MICE Symphony Orchestra presents Symphony Under the Outback Stars
Sep 27 Distinguished Gentlemen's Ride
Oct 3-5 Karumba Barra & Blues Festival and Anglers Classic
Oct 23-25 Lake Moondarra Fishing Classic
Oct 23-Nov 14 One Act Plays/Double Feature MITS
Oct 31 Halloween
Nov 11 Remembrance Day
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.
