Editing List of festivals in Australia (section)

==Queensland==
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! style="width:25%;"|Name!! style="width:20%;"|Location!! style="width:5%;"|Began!! style="width:20%;"|Date!! style="width:25%;"|Notes
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|[[Anywhere Theatre Festival (Brisbane)|Anywhere Theatre Festival]]<ref name="anywherefest">{{cite web|url=http://www.anywherefest.com|title=Upcoming Events &#124; Anywhere Festival|publisher=anywherefest.com|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>||[[Brisbane]]||2011||May||Annual
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|[[Australian Festival of Chamber Music]]|| [[Townsville]]|| 1991|| ||
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|[[Apple & Grape Harvest Festival]]<ref name="appleandgrape">{{cite web|url=http://www.appleandgrape.org/about-the-festival/|title=About the Festival — Apple & Grape Harvest Festival|publisher=appleandgrape.org|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>||[[Stanthorpe]]||1966||March||Biannual
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|Australian Italian Festival
|[[Ingham, Queensland|Ingham]]
|1995
|First weekend in June
|Annual
A two-day festival celebrating Italian culture
[https://www.australianitalianfestival.com.au/ (Website)]
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|[[Beef Australia]]<ref name="beefaustralia">{{cite web|url=http://www.beefaustralia.com.au|title=Beef Australia 2018 &#124; 6–12 May 2018|publisher=beefaustralia.com.au|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>||[[Rockhampton]]||1988||May||National Beef Exposition – Triennial
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|[[BeerFestABull]]||Innes Park||2010||22–23 September 2012||Annual
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|[[Big Day Out]]<ref name="bigdayout">{{cite web|url=http://www.bigdayout.com/home.php |title=Big Day Out &#124; Summer 2014 |publisher=bigdayout.com |accessdate=13 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629020227/http://www.bigdayout.com/home.php |archive-date=29 June 2012 }}</ref>||Gold Coast||1994||January||Annual
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|[[Big Red Bash]]<ref name="bigredbash_home">{{cite web |url=https://bigredbash.com.au/home/ |title=Big Red Bash |access-date=24 October 2023 }}</ref>||[[Birdsville]]||||July||Annual
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|[[Bleach*]]||[[Coolangatta, Queensland|Coolangatta]]||2010|| ||Annual
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|[[Blues on Broadbeach Music Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluesonbroadbeach.com |title=Blues on Broadbeach Music Festival: 23–26 May 2013 |publisher=Bluesonbroadbeach.com |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||[[Broadbeach]]||2002||May||Annual
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|[[Bris Funny Fest]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brisfunnyfest.com |title=Bris Funny Fest: 2–20 August 2017 |publisher=Brisfunnyfest.com |accessdate=22 July 2017}}</ref>||[[Brisbane]]||2016||August||Annual fringe comedy festival
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|[[Brisbane Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/Homepage/0,27,67,027.aspx |title= Brisbane Festival|website=www.brisbanefestival.com.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514184850/http://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/Homepage/0%2C27%2C67%2C027.aspx |archive-date=14 May 2012}}</ref>||Brisbane||1996||September–October||Annual
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|[[Brisbane International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stgeorgebiff.com.au/Default.aspx |title=St. George Brisbane International Film Festival  |website=www.stgeorgebiff.com.au |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926104911/http://www.stgeorgebiff.com.au/Default.aspx |archive-date=26 September 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>||Brisbane||1992|| ||Annual
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|[[Brisbane International Youth Music Festival]]||[[Brisbane]]||2012|| ||
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|[[Brisbane Pride Festival]]||Brisbane||1990|| ||Annual
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|[[Brisbane Writers Festival]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Home | website=Brisbane Writers Festival | date=14 May 2023 | url=https://bwf.org.au/ | access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref>|| Brisbane || 1962 || September || 
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|[[Broadbeach Country Music Festival]]||[[Broadbeach]]||2012||August||Annual
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|[[Broadbeach Jazz Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadbeachjazz.com |title=Broadbeach Jazz Festival |publisher=Broadbeachjazz.com |date=18 September 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||[[Broadbeach]]||2012||August||Annual
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|[[Burleigh Heads Single Fin Festival]]||[[Burleigh Heads]]||2010|| ||Annual
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|Buskers by the Lake
|Lake Kawana, Sunshine Coast
|2014
|October
|Annual
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|[[Cardwell UFO Festival]]||[[Cardwell, Queensland|Cardwell]]||2014||Third Saturday in October||Annual
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|[[Cairns Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cairnsfest.com.au/|title=Cairns Festival |publisher=Cairnsfest|accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||[[Cairns]]||1962||12 August–4 September||Annual
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|Cairns Winter Solstice Festival<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wintersolstice.com.au |title=Cairns Winter Solstice Celebration and Sustainable Lifestyle Gathering &#124; Cairns Winter Solstice Celebration and Sustainable Lifestyle Gathering |publisher=Wintersolstice.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121231015313/http://www.wintersolstice.com.au/ |archive-date=31 December 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||[[Mount Garnet]]||2006||12–15 June|| Annual
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|Cairns Ukulele Festival<ref name="cairnsukulelefestival">{{cite web|url=http://cairnsukulelefestival.net|title=Cairns Ukulele Festival &#124; &quot;the happiest festival in the world!&quot;|publisher=cairnsukulelefestival.net|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>||Cairns||2010||July|| Annual
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|[[Caloundra Music Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caloundramusicfestival.com/ |title=Caloundra Music Festival |publisher=Caloundra Music Festival |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||[[Caloundra]]||2007||28–30 September||Annual
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|[[Camooweal Drover's Camp Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.droverscamp.com.au |title=Camooweal Drovers Camp|publisher=Droverscamp.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||[[Camooweal]]||1996||Fourth weekend of August||Annual
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|Capricorn Food & Wine Festival<ref>[http://capricornfoodandwine.com.au Capricorn Food & Wine Festival], Capricorn Food & Wine Festival website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Rockhampton]]||2013||September||Annual
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|[[Carnival of Flowers]]<ref name="tcof">{{cite web|url=http://www.tcof.com.au/history|title=History &#124; The Carnival of Flowers|publisher=tcof.com.au|accessdate=12 July 2016}}</ref>||[[Toowoomba]]||1950||September|| Annual
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|[[Caxton Street Seafood and Wine Festival]]||Brisbane||1994|| ||Annual
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|[[Centenary Rocks! Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centenaryrocks.com |title=Centenary Rocks! Festival |publisher=Centenaryrocks.com |date=25 July 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||Brisbane||2003||Last weekend of July||Annual
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|Childers Festival<ref>[http://www.childersfestival.com.au Childers Festival], Childers Festival website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Childers, Queensland|Childers]]||1996||July||Annual
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|[[Cooly Rocks On]]||[[Coolangatta, Queensland|Coolangatta]]/[[Tweed Heads]]||2011||June||
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|[[Dead of Winter Festival]]||Brisbane||2009||June||Annual
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|[[Dingo Creek Jazz and Blues Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dingocreekfestival.com.au |title=Dingo Creek Jazz & Blues Festival |publisher=Dingocreekfestival.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003050109/http://www.dingocreekfestival.com.au/ |archive-date=3 October 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||Traveston (near [[Gympie]])||2002||Varies||Annual
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|[[Dirt n Dust Festival]]||[[Julia Creek, Queensland|Julia Creek]]||1995||April ||Annual
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|[[Earth Roots Culture Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dancehallreggae.com.au |title=Earth Roots Culture Festival |publisher=www.dancehallreggae.com.au |accessdate=2017-03-11}}</ref>||[[Brisbane]]||2017||Varies||Annual
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|[[Easterfest]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/easterfest |title=Easterfest |publisher=[[Facebook]] |accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref>||[[Toowoomba]]||1999||Varies||Annual
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|The Dreaming||[[Woodford, Queensland|Woodford]]||2005||June||International indigenous festival
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|FOMO Festival
|Brisbane
|2016
|January
|Annual ([http://www.fomofestival.com.au website])
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|[[The GarterBelts and Gasoline Nostalgia Festival]]||[[Mount Tamborine, Queensland|Mount Tamborine]]||2002|| ||Annual
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|Gayndah Orange Festival<ref name="orangefestival">{{cite web|url=http://www.orangefestival.com.au|title=www.orangefestival.com.au|publisher=orangefestival.com.au|accessdate=13 May 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220513/http://www.orangefestival.com.au/|archive-date=3 March 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>||[[Gayndah]]||1990||June|| Bi-Annual
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|Gemfest<ref>[http://gemfest.com.au Gemfest: A Festival of Gems], Gemfest website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[The Gemfields]]||1988||August||Annual
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|Gigs & Digs Festival<ref>[https://www.gigsdigs.com.au Gigs & Digs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603234221/https://www.gigsdigs.com.au/ |date=3 June 2018 }}, Gigs & Digs website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Emerald, Queensland|Emerald]]||2017||August||Annual
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|Gladstone Harbour Festival<ref>[http://gladstonefestival.com/harbourfestival Gladstone Harbour Festival], Gladstone Harbour Festival website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Gladstone, Queensland|Gladstone]]||1962||[[Easter]] weekend||Annual
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|Go Troppo Arts Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.go-troppo-arts-festival.com |title=Go Troppo Arts Festival, Port Douglas |publisher=Go-troppo-arts-festival.com |date=31 October 2010 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||[[Port Douglas]]||2008||October||
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|[[Gold Coast International Food, Wine and Music Festival]]||[[Robina, Queensland|Robina]]||2002|| ||Annual
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|[[Gold Coast Film Festival]]||[[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]]||2002|| April
|Annual
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|[[Golden Days Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://goldendaysfestival.com/ |title=Golden Days Festival |publisher=Golden Days Festival |accessdate=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006162643/http://www.goldendaysfestival.com/ |archive-date=6 October 2012 |url-status=usurped |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||[[Coolum]]||2010||19 & 20 November 2011||Annual
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|Golden Mount Festival<ref>[https://goldenmountfestival.org.au Golden Mount Festival], Golden Mount Festival website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Mount Morgan, Queensland|Mount Morgan]]||1977||[[Labour Day#Australia|Labour Day weekend]] in May||Annual
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|[[Gympie Muster]]||[[Amamoor Forest Reserve]]||1982||||Annual
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| Island Elements Festival
| Adder Rock, North Stradbroke Island
| 2015
| 23–25 October
| Annual
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| Island Vibe Festival
| [[Home Beach, North Stradbroke Island]]
| 2006
| 30 October–1 November
| Annual
|- style="text-align:left" id="Jungle Love"
| [[Jungle Love (festival)|Jungle Love]]<ref>{{cite web | title=taking some time off until this all blows over. | website=Jungle love Music and Arts Festival | url=https://junglelovefestival.com.au/ | access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref>|| [[Imbil, Queensland]]|| 2014 ||End of November|| Music and arts festival
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||Kenilworth Celebrates!<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kenilworthcelebrates.org.au/ |title=Kenilworth Celebrates! Festival in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland |publisher=Kenilworthcelebrates.org.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919014624/http://www.kenilworthcelebrates.org.au/ |archive-date=19 September 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||[[Kenilworth, Queensland|Kenilworth]]||1997||September/October||Annual
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||Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Fest<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kenilworthfoodfest.org.au/ |title=Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Fest |publisher=Kenilworthfoodfest.org.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106051951/http://www.kenilworthfoodfest.org.au/ |archive-date=6 November 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||Kenilworth||2009||Easter Saturday||Annual
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||[[Kirra Kite Festival]]||[[Kirra, Queensland|Kirra]]||2000||July||Annual
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||[[Mary Valley Art Festival]]||[[Imbil, Queensland|Imbil]]||2000||July||Annual
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|May Day Fair<ref>[https://www.cqnews.com.au/news/family-festival-at-blackwater/836012 Family festival at Blackwater], ''Central Queensland News'', News Corp Australia, 29 April 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Blackwater, Queensland|Blackwater]]||||[[Labour Day#Australia|Labour Day]] weekend in May||Annual
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|[[Miles Back to the Bush Festival]]||Miles||2018||September||Biennial
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|[[Milking the Cow Beer Lovers Festival]]||Toowoomba||2010||June||Annual
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|Moura Coal & Country Festival<ref>[https://www.mouracoalfestival.com Moura Coal & Country Festival], Moura Coal Festival website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Moura, Queensland|Moura]]||1971||August||Annual
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|[[Noosa Jazz Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noosajazz.com.au/ |title=Noosa Jazz Festival |publisher=Noosajazz.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||Noosa||1992||September||Annual
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|[[Noosa Festival of Surfing]]||[[Noosa, Queensland|Noosa]]||1992|| Late Feb/early March||Annual
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|[[Noosa Long Weekend Festival]]||Noosa|| July 2001 ||July||Annual{{cn|date=June 2023}}
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|[[Oktoberfest Brisbane]]||Brisbane||2002||October||Annual
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|Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ) Festival<ref>[https://www.umbrella.org.au/punq/ Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ) Festival]</ref>
|[[Townsville]], [[Magnetic Island]], [[Hinchinbrook Island]], and [[Charters Towers]]
|2017
|July–August
|Biennial
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|[[Port Douglas Carnivale]]|| [[Port Douglas]]||1994||May||Annual
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|[[Queensland Beer Week]]||Queensland||2010||June||Annual
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|[[Queensland Music Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.queenslandmusicfestival.com.au/ |title=Queenslandmusicfestival.com.au |publisher=Queenslandmusicfestival.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419230909/http://www.queenslandmusicfestival.com.au/ |archive-date=19 April 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||Queensland||1999|| ||Biennial
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|[[Queensland Poetry Festival]]||Brisbane||1997||Last weekend of August||Annual
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|Redlands Spring Festival<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redlandspringfestival.com.au |title=2012 Redland Spring Festival|publisher=redlandspringfestival.com.au |date=9 September 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918124122/http://www.redlandspringfestival.com.au/ |archive-date=18 September 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||Brisbane||1958||September||Annual
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|[[Reggaetown World Music Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reggaetown.com.au/ |title=ReggaeTown World Music Festival &#124; Australia's Premier Reggae & Roots Festival |publisher=Reggaetown.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820215849/http://reggaetown.com.au/ |archive-date=20 August 2006 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||Cairns||1987||10 & 11 September||Annual
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|[[Ripe (festival)|Ripe]]||Noosa||2009|| ||
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|[[River Sessions]]||[[Mackay, Queensland|Mackay]]||2009||July||Annual
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|Rockhampton River Festival<ref>[https://www.rockhamptonriverfestival.com.au Rockhampton River Festival], Rockhampton River Festival website. Retrieved 6 December 2017.</ref>||[[Rockhampton]]||2015||July||Annual
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|[[Screen It International Film Festival]] (SIFF)<ref>{{cite web | title=Screen It International Film Festival | website=FilmFreeway | date=1 August 2022 | url=https://filmfreeway.com/SIIFF_AU | access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Screen It International Film Festival | website=[[FilmInk]] | date=20 October 2022 | url=https://www.filmink.com.au/public-notice/screen-it-international-film-festival/ | access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Facebook|siiffau/ |Screen It International Film Festival}}</ref>
|[[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]]
|2014
|September
|Annual  
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|[[Sea N Beats (Brisbane)|Sea N Beats]]<ref name="seanbeats">{{cite web|url=http://www.seanbeats.com.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150303223954/http://www.seanbeats.com.au/ |archive-date=2015-03-03 |url-status=dead |title=Sea 'N Beats &#124; Australia's First Cruise Ship Festival|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>||[[Brisbane]]||2016||5–8 March||Annual
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|[[Shockwave Festival]]||Blackall||2014||2–3 August||Annual
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|Soundwave||Brisbane|| || ||Annual
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|[[Splendour in the Grass]]||Woodford||2010 & 2011||July||Held near Woodford in 2010 & 2011; usually [[Byron Bay]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Feeney|first=Katherine|title=Splendour in the Grass returning home to Byron Bay|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/splendour-in-the-grass-returning-home-to-byron-bay-20120210-1sbvh.html|publisher=[[Fairfax Media Limited]]|accessdate=5 January 2013|date=10 February 2012}}</ref>
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|SPRUKE – Brisbane's Ukulele Festival 
|Brisbane
|2013
|Spring (usually late September or early October)
|Biennial ([http://www.spruke.net.au/ Website])
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||Straight Out of Brisbane<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.qld.gov.au/arts/soob.html |title=Arts Queensland - Straight Out of Brisbane |publisher=Arts.qld.gov.au |date=19 September 2007 |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419064328/http://www.arts.qld.gov.au/arts/soob.html |archive-date=19 April 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||Brisbane||2002|| ||
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||STUFFit Film Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuffitfilmfest.com |title=STUFFit Film Festival|year=2012 |accessdate=12 December 2012}}</ref>||[[Sunshine Coast, Queensland|Sunshine Coast]]||2012|| ||Student film festival, annual
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|[[Sunshine Coast Ukulele Fest]]
|Sunshine Coast/Kenilworth
|2014
|14–17 April 2016
|Annual  [http://www.sunshinecoastukulelefest.com (Website)]
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||[[Surfers Paradise Festival]]||[[Surfers Paradise]]||??|| || annual
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||Swell Sculpture Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swellsculpture.com.au/ |title=Swell Sculpture Festival |publisher=Swell Sculpture Festival |accessdate=25 November 2013}}</ref>||[[Currumbin]]||2002||September || annual
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|[[Urban Country Music Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urbancountry.com.au |title=3–5 May 2013 &#124; Urban Country Music Festival |publisher=Urbancountry.com.au |date=30 March 2011 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||Caboolture||2004||Qld May Long Weekend||Annual
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|VDMfest<ref>[http://www.vdmfest.com.au VDMfest], VDMfest website. Retrieved 9 December 2017.</ref>||[[Biloela]]||2017||October||Annual
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|Village Festival<ref>[http://thevillagefestival.org.au The Village Festival], The Village Festival website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Yeppoon]]||2003||August||Annual

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|[[The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival]]||[[Winton, Queensland|Winton]]||2014||Late June – Early July||Annual

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|Wallaby Creek Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wallabycreekfestival.org.au |title= Wallaby Creek Festival |publisher=Wallaby Creek Festival |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||[[Home Rule, Queensland|Rossville]]||2002||23–25 September||
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|[[Wintersun Festival]]||[[Coolangatta, Queensland|Coolangatta]]/[[Tweed Heads]]||1978||June||
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|[[Woodford Folk Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/home/ |title=Woodford Folk Festival |publisher=Woodford Folk Festival |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029040642/http://www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/home/ |archive-date=29 October 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>||[[Woodford, Queensland|Woodford]]||1987||27 December&ndash;1 January||Annual
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|Yeppoon Pinefest<ref>[http://www.yeppoonlions.com.au/pinefest Pinefest], Yeppoon Lions website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Yeppoon]]||1967||October||Annual
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|[[Yungaburra Folk Festival]]||[[Yungaburra]]||1997||May||Annual
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