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Australia with its diversity of people and landscapes has numerous Australiaevents comprising of festivals, shows and sporting events. Australia boasts of major arts and music festivals, performances & events in all its cities. Australia being a sporting nation offers a variety of Sporting Events with world class tennis, one-day international & test cricket and one of the top ocean races in the world The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

Current Events in Australia

Big Day Out
Australia’s biggest traveling road show - BDO is a summer music festival which has featured in recent years bands like Limp Bizkit, Coldplay, PJ Harvey and Placebo. In the past top acts such as Nirvana, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bjork have also made the trip down under. However, as the event cements its reputation on the international music festival calendar, the problems of massive gigs present themselves but the event is scheduled to continue though more stringent security and provisions.

Henley on Todd dry river race - Alice Springs
Of the Australia events, this event is an unusual event held in Alice Springs. Every year in September normally normal people gather in Alice to crew boats in a river with no water. People call themselves Vikings and pirates and many of these vessels are armed with mortars and high-pressure water cannons. It started in 1962 when the denizens of this Australian town decided to have a boating regatta similar to what Oxford and Cambridge compete for on the Thames. The multi-event program attracts many local and international participants from the audience. It’s complete madness out here, with the event run by Rotary Clubs, an organization that raises millions for charity.

AFL Match
It began in circa 1850 to keep cricketers fit in winter, Aussie Rules is a fusion of rugby, gaelic football and a charming Australian schoolboy pursuit called ‘mug the dill with the pill’ that involves gang-tackling the unfortunate soul who has hold of the football. The game is played on an oval-shaped, polo field-sized ground between two teams of 18 players each. The idea is to kick the ball through two upright poles and earn six points.

Melbourne Cup
About this Australian event it is known as ‘The race that stops a nation’. At 2:50pm on the first Tuesday in November, the whole nation downs tools and tunes in. The entire state of Victoria has a holiday. Flemington, where the race is held, is flooded with champagne, funny hats, colorful dresses, jockeys, punters, beautiful people, ugly people, normal looking people and those who are sort of non-descript – aka everybody. At least 150,000 people get to the track, and the scene is the same at every suburban and metropolitan race-track in the whole country. Australians go mad for ‘The Cup’, everyone becomes an expert and sweepstakes are held in offices, pubs, clubs, classrooms and parliament houses around the country.

Anzac Day
ANZAC is the name given to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 25th of April, 1915. For the fledgling nation of Australia its first test was Gallipoli. The battle ended in glorious defeat but the courage shown by men running at certain death is honored on this day every year. All Australian towns and cities pay their respects to these soldiers and those who fought after them with dawn services, marches, and games of two-up. For the visitor, a two-up ring is a sight to behold.

Summernats – Canberra
For those who like motor vehicles to be great thumping machines of angry muscle – or something equally lyrically waxed – the Summernats held in the normally placid city of Canberra in early January is the right event. It’s promoted as the ‘Australia’s Biggest Horsepower Party’ and its true with chrome, noise, beer, heat, engines, beer all over the place.  It’s the see-and-be-seen capital of the rev-head universe. There are also Burnout competitions, held in the ‘world’s first and only purpose-built burnout facility’ - where more smoke is created than forest fires. They cruise around checking each other out, get drunk for four days, and then crown some lucky girl Miss Summernats.

Tropfest Film Festival - Held in Sydney screened nationally
Tropfest is the world's largest short film festival and is held every year one night in February in Sydney's Domain, Royal Botanic Gardens and cafes on Victoria Street Darlinghurst. The purpose is to ‘showcase the work of upcoming filmmakers and to give them the opportunity to screen their films for their peers in a festive environment’. The event began in 1993 when a local actor/director John Polson screened one of his own short films at the Tropicana Café in Darlinghurst. 200 people crammed the café. Over the years this has multiplied and last year saw about 100,000 watched the entries in The Domain.

Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney
This event is a celebration of the gay culture, which is held around the end of February / beginning of March. The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras has grown to be the biggest of its type in the world. About a million people line up Sydney’s streets to see floats so colorful, and outfits so outlandish that Brazilian carnevalists would blush with embarrassment. Streets are blocked off, pubs and bars en-route are jammed, and the gay and lesbian community party for days. It’s their Christmas. Straight folk are allowed along for the celebratory ride but this is a celebration of gay culture.

Birdsville Races, Queensland
This is one of the race meetings in the world where most of the spectators arrive by light plane held in Far Western Queensland, in early September, drawing thousands of visitor’s for a weekend of beer, betting, and complete fun. One get’s to see people dressed in boots and cowboy hats or costumes which are really bizarre. The place doesn’t have much of accommodation facilities and during the event the visitor’s camp and stay there.

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
This famous Yacht rave takes place on the 26th of December, starting from Sydney to Hobart. This event witnesses thousands of spectators flocking every vantage point on Sydney Harbor to watch the Yacht race. The harbor becomes a spectacular site, with mass of color as the spectators shove with official people, to get a glimpse of seeing large boats with colorful sails sailing out through the heads and begin the journey down to Tasmania. It’s truly is a wonderful, and colorful thing to see.

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