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====1980s and 1990s: outdoor raves and the Sydney scene====
Rave parties began in Australia as early as the 1980s and continued well into the late 1990s. They were mobilised versions of the 'warehouse parties', across Britain. Similar to the United States and Britain, raves in Australia were unlicensed and held in spaces normally used for industrial and manufacturing purposes, such as [[warehouses]], factories and carpet showrooms. In addition, suburban locations were also used: basketball gymnasiums, train stations and even circus tents were all common venues. In [[Sydney]], common areas used for outdoor events included [[Sydney Park]], a reclaimed garbage dump in the inner south west of the city, Cataract Park and various other natural, unused locations and bush lands. The raves placed a heavy emphasis on the connection between humans and the natural environment, thus many raves in Sydney were held outdoors, notably the 'Happy Valley' parties (1991–1994), 'Ecology' (1992) and 'Field of Dreams 4' (6 July 1996).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.snarl.org/youth/chrispagan2.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/http://www.snarl.org/youth/chrispagan2.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-10 |url-status=live|title=Rave culture in Sydney, Australia: mapping youth spaces in media discourse|first=Chris|last=Pagan|publisher=[[University of Sydney]]|access-date=8 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sydneyravehistory.com/#!rave-timeline/c66t|title=Timeline of Sydney Raves from the website – Sydney Rave History |website=www.sydneyravehistory.com |access-date=14 September 2014|archive-date=13 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113062638/http://www.sydneyravehistory.com/#!rave-timeline/c66t|url-status=dead}}</ref> The mid-late 1990s saw a slight decline in rave attendance, attributed to the [[Anna Wood (born 1980)|death of Anna Wood]] at a licensed inner-city Sydney venue, which was hosting a rave party known as "Apache". Wood had taken [[MDMA|ecstasy]] and died in hospital a few days later, leading to extensive media exposure on the correlation of drug culture and its links to the rave scene in Australia.