Editing List of festivals in Australia

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'''List of festivals in Australia''', including any established [[festival]] or [[carnival]] in [[Australia]].

==Australian Capital Territory==
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! style="width:15%;"|Name!! style="width:15%;"|Location!! style="width:5%;"|Began!! style="width:5%;"|Dates!! style="width:25%;"|Notes
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|[[Art, Not Apart]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newacton.com.au/ana | title=Art, Not Apart }}</ref>  || [[Canberra]] || 2010 || March || Multi-Arts Festival ([http://artnotapart.com/ Website])
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| AusFest (Australian Independent Music Festival)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ausfest.org/ |title=Australian Independent Music Festival – Home Page |publisher=Ausfest |date=1 August 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Canberra]] & [[Queanbeyan]]|| 2006 || January||Australian and international Indie performers, arts and dance (previously in Melbourne, Adelaide & Brisbane) ([http://www.ausfest.org/ Website])
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|[[Australia Day Live]]<ref name="australiaday">{{cite web|url=http://www.australiaday.org.au|title=Australia Day|publisher=australiaday.org.au|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>  || Lawns of [[Parliament House, Canberra]] || 1999 || 25 January || Starts with Australian of the Year award, followed by music and top acts. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151226122804/http://www.australiaday.org.au/australia-day/ausoftheyear-concert/ Website])
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| Australian Science Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencefestival.com.au/ |title=Australian Science Festival|publisher=Sciencefestival.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153448/http://www.sciencefestival.com.au/ |archive-date=14 October 2012 }}</ref> || [[Canberra]] || 1993 || August|| Week long science festival held annually in May. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153448/http://www.sciencefestival.com.au/ Website])
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|[[Canberra Balloon Spectacular]]||Canberra||1986|| March || Formally known as Canberra Balloon Festival ([http://balloonspectacular.com.au/ Canberra Balloon Spectacular])
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| Canberra Comedy Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://canberracomedyfestival.com.au/ |title=Canberra Comedy Festival |publisher=Canberra Comedy Festival |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Canberra]] || 2013 || March || Local, Australian and International comedy acts. ([http://canberracomedyfestival.com.au/ Website])
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|[[Canberra Country Blues & Roots Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canberracountry.com/ |title= Canberra Country Blues & Roots Festival |publisher=Canberracountry.com |date=3 August 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> ||[[Hall, Australian Capital Territory|Hall]]|| 2009 || November || Originally established as the Canberra Country Music Festival  ([http://www.canberracountry.com/ Website])
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|Canberra District Wine Harvest Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canberrawines.com.au |title=Canberra District Wines: Liquid Geography – Wineries, Cellar Doors, Restaurants, Cafes, Regional Producers |publisher=Canberrawines.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>  || Various venues across Canberra and the surrounding region || 1990s || April ||Wine festival held annually in April. ([http://www.canberrawines.com.au/ Website])
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|Canberra Craft Beer & Cider Festival|| Canberra || 2008 || March || Beer & Cider Festival ([http://canberrabeerfest.com.au/ Website])
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|[[Canberra International Film Festival]]|| [[Acton, Australian Capital Territory|Acton]] || 1996 || October–November || ([https://ciff.com.au/ Website])
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|[[Canberra International Music Festival]]<ref name="cicmf">{{cite web|url=http://www.cicmf.org|title= Canberra International Music Festival|publisher= Canberra International Music Festival |accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> || Various venues across Canberra || 1997 || April–May ||Chamber, classical, jazz, contemporary and world music festival ([http://www.cimf.org.au/ Website])
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|Canberra Nara Candle Festival || Canberra || 2003 || October || Japanese cultural festival ([http://www.events.act.gov.au/nara Website])
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|Canberra Writers Festival
|Canberra
|2016
|August
|[http://www.canberrawritersfestival.com.au Website]
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| [[Enlighten Canberra|Enlighten Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enlightencanberra.com.au/ |title=Enlighten Canberra |publisher=Enlighten Canberra |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Parliamentary Triangle]] || 2011 || First two weekends of March|| Annual art and cultural festival, held in the evening ([http://enlightencanberra.com.au/ Website])
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| Fireside Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firesidefestival.com.au// |title= Fireside Festival |publisher=Fireside Festival |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || Canberra region || 2006 || July–August||Winter festival with food, wine and music. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151117033525/http://thepoachersway.com.au/home/ Website])
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|[[Floriade, Canberra|Floriade]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.floriadeaustralia.com |title=Floriade |publisher=Floriade|accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Commonwealth Park]] || 1988 || September–October || Flower and entertainment festival held annually. ([http://www.floriadeaustralia.com/ Website])
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|Foreshore Summer Music Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foreshorefestival.com.au |title= Foreshore Summer Music Festival |publisher=Foreshorefestival.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Parliamentary Triangle]] || 2007 || November ||Pop, Electronic, Indie, Rock & Hip hop music
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|[[Groovin the Moo]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gtm.net.au |title=<<< Groovin the Moo 2012 ~ CHOOSE YOUR RITUAL >>> |publisher=Groovin the Moo |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || Canberra and various locations nationally|| 2005 || May ||Dance and music ([http://www.gtm.net.au/ Website])
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|[[National Folk Festival (Australia)|National Folk Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.folkfestival.org.au |title=National Folk Festival |publisher= National Folk Festival |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| Canberra || 1967 || 5-Days over Easter ||Folk music, dance, and arts festival. Workshops and sessions day/night. Held in various cities across Australia from 1967 to 1991. Held in Canberra annually since 1992 ([http://folkfestival.org.au/ Website])
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|[[National Multicultural Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.multiculturalfestival.com.au |title=National Multicultural Festival|publisher=National Multicultural Festival |date=10 October 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || Various venues – [[Civic, Australian Capital Territory|Civic, Canberra]] || 1997 || February || Arts, Music, Comedy, Parades, food and wine, street parties, exhibitions etc., held over three days. ([http://multiculturalfestival.com.au/ Website])
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|[[Skyfire (Canberra)|Skyfire]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visitcanberra.com.au/Events/Music/Event-Details-Page.aspx?ID=9001526&Title=FM+104.7+Skyfire |title=Skyfire 25 |publisher=visitcanberra.com.au |accessdate=17 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029190221/http://www.visitcanberra.com.au/Events/Music/Event-Details-Page.aspx?ID=9001526&Title=FM+104.7+Skyfire |archive-date=29 October 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> || Central Basin, [[Lake Burley Griffin]] || 1988 || March || Fireworks festival. ([http://www.1047.com.au/skyfire/ Website])
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|[[Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music]]
|Sydney
|1990
|September
|Dedicated to contemporary classical music.
The Festival was held from 1990 to 2001 (twelve editions in total)
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|[[Summernats]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.summernats.com.au |title=Summernats|publisher=Summernats|accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Exhibition Park in Canberra]] (EPIC), [[Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory|Lyneham]]<!-- not actually Mitchell per boundaries -->|| 1988 || January || Car festival. ([http://www.summernats.com.au/ Website])
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|[[Stonefest]] || [[University of Canberra]] || 2001 || January ||Rock music festival
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|Summer and Winter Festivals of Peace || Stage 88, [[Commonwealth Park]] || 1994 || ||Music and Peace festival
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|Summer Rhythm Festival<ref name="strangehours">{{cite web|url=http://www.strangehours.com.au |title=Strange Hours|publisher=strangehours.com.au |accessdate=13 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227214410/http://www.strangehours.com.au/ |archive-date=27 February 2015 }}</ref>|| Goolabri, [[Sutton, New South Wales|Sutton]] || 2009 || December ||3 Days, Music, Camping, Market Stalls
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|Trackside Festival || Thoroughbred Park (Canberra Racecourse), [[Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory|Lyneham]] || 2009 || November||Music, stores, carnival rides, international food & drink and market stalls
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| The Truffle Festival Canberra Region|| Various locations – Canberra region || 2003 || July–August || ([http://www.trufflefestival.com.au/ Website])
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|Tuggeranong Festival<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tuggeranongfestival.org.au |title=Tuggeranong Festival 2012 |publisher= Tuggeranong Festival |accessdate=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419120838/http://tuggeranongfestival.org.au/ |archive-date=19 April 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> || [[Tuggeranong]] || 1988 || November || ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151125035642/http://tuggeranongfestival.org.au/ Website])
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|Wine, Roses and all that Jazz  || Various locations – Canberra region || 2007 || November ||Wine and jazz festival
|}

==New South Wales==

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!|Festival!!|Location!!|Began / When!!|Notes
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| Ardlethan German Beer and Wine Festival  || [[Ardlethan]] || 2007 || German Beer and Wine Festival held in July/August. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160130192926/http://www.coolamonshire.com.au/events/ardlethan-german-beer-wine-festival.aspx Website])
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| Arts in the Valley || [[Kangaroo Valley]] || 2007 || Classical music, arts festival held in May/June. ([http://www.artsinthevalley.net.au/ Website])
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| Australian Beer Festival || [[The Rocks, New South Wales|The Rocks]] || 2005 || Beer Festival held annually in October. ([https://australianheritagehotel.com/portfolio/aussie-beer-fest/ Website])
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| [[Bankstown Bites Food Festival]]<ref name="Bankstown City Council">{{cite web|url=http://www.bankstownbites.com.au |title=Bankstown City Council |publisher=Bankstown Bites |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| [[Bankstown]] || 2005 || Food Festival held annually in July. ([http://www.bankstown.nsw.gov.au/index.aspx?nid=1050 Website])
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| Batlow CiderFest ||[[Batlow]]||2012|| Cider festival held on the third weekend in May. ([http://batlowciderfest.com.au/ Website])
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|Bellingen Fine Music Festival
|[[Bellingen, New South Wales|Bellingen]]
||September annually || Local to internationally known artists from Classical, World, Jazz music traditions
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| Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival<ref name="brwf.com.au">http://www.brwf.com.au {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406120429/http://www.brwf.com.au/ |date=6 April 2011 }}</ref>|| [[Bellingen, New South Wales|Bellingen]] || 2011 || Writers Festival. ([http://bellingenwritersfestival.com.au/ Website])
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|Bello Winter Music
|[[Bellingen, New South Wales|Bellingen]]
|2015
|July yearly ([http://bellowintermusic.com Website])
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| [[Biennale of Sydney]] || Various venues, [[Sydney]] || 1973 || Contemporary visual arts festival. Held every two years. ([https://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au Website])
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| Bitter and Twisted Boutique Beer Festival || [[East Maitland]] ||  || Annual beer festival held in November. ([http://www.bitterandtwisted.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Big Day Out]] || national || 1992 || Annual summer music festival. ([http://www.bigdayout.com/ Website])
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| Blackheath Rhododendron Festival ||[[Blackheath, New South Wales|Blackheath]]||1953|| Annual festival held in late October to early November. ([https://rhodofestival.org/ Website])
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| Blacktown City Festival ||[[Blacktown]]||1975|| Annual festival held in May. Originated as the ''Crafty Bunyip Festival'', changing to the Blacktown City Festival in 1979. Includes the ''Blacktown City Medieval Fayre'' held at [[Nurragingy Reserve]], [[Doonside, New South Wales|Doonside]]. ([https://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/festival/Home Website])
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| The Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival || [[Katoomba, New South Wales|Katoomba]] || 2010 || Held annually over the second weekend in February. ([http://www.bluemugs.com.au/p/bmuf-2012.html Website])
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| [[Byron Bay Bluesfest]] || [[Byron Bay]] || 1990 || Blues Music and cultural festival. Held annually over the Easter break. ([http://www.bluesfest.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Southern Highlands (New South Wales)#Brigadoon|Brigadoon]] ||[[Bundanoon]]|| 1977|| Annual Scottish festival held in April. ([https://brigadoon.org.au/ Website])
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| [[Bondi Short Film Festival]] ||[[Bondi Beach]]||2001|| Held annually in November. ([http://www.bondishortfilmfestival.com/ Website])
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| Bring It On! Festival ||[[Prairiewood]], Sydney||2003|| Music, sporting and arts festival, held annually at the end of National Youth Week in April. ([http://www.fairfieldcity.nsw.gov.au/info/20001/events_and_festivals/168/bring_it_on_festival])
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| [[Ettalong Beach#Brisbane Water Oyster Festival|Brisbane Water Oyster Festival]] ||[[Ettalong Beach]]||2000|| Held annually in November. ([http://www.oysterfestival.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Byron Bay Film Festival]] || [[Byron Bay]] || 2006 || International Film Festival. ([http://www.bbff.com.au/ Website])
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| Byron Bay Surf Festival || [[Byron Bay]] || 2010 || Surf Culture Festival. ([http://www.byronbaysurffestival.com.au/ Website])
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| Byron Spirit Festival<ref name="Byronspiritfest.com.au">{{cite web|url=http://www.byronspiritfest.com.au |title=Byron Bay Spirit Festival, Mullumbimby Yoga &#124; Tantra &#124; Music &#124; Dance |publisher=Byronspiritfest.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| [[Mullumbimby]] || 2012 || Yoga, Tantra, Music, Dance, Healing. ([http://spiritfestival.com.au/ Website])
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| Byron Underwater Festival<ref name="underwaterfestival.com.au">{{cite web|url=http://www.underwaterfestival.com.au|title=Underwater Festival &#124; Welcome to the 2013 Underwater Festival|publisher=underwaterfestival.com.au|accessdate=13 May 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100810012514/http://www.underwaterfestival.com.au/|archive-date=10 August 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref>|| Byron Bay || 2007 || Underwater Festival, Photography & Arts
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|Casino Beef Week
|Casino
|1982
|Annual Beef Industry and Community Festival ([https://casinobeefweek.com.au/ Website])
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| [[CoastFest]] || [[Gosford]] || || Music and Cultural Festival
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| Coffs Harbour International Buskers & Comedy Festival || [[Coffs Harbour]] || 2001 || Annual festival of street theatre and performers. Held annually in late September to early October. ([http://www.coffsharbourbuskers.com/ Website])
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| Collector Village Pumpkin Festival || [[Collector, New South Wales|Collector]] || 2003 || Pumpkin themed country festival. Held annually in May. ([http://pumpkinfestival.com.au/ Website])
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| Crookwell Potato Festival || [[Crookwell]] || 2011 || Potato themed festival held in May. ([http://www.crookwellpotatofestival.com.au/ Website])
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| Curryfest ||[[Woolgoolga]]||2006|| Cultural, music, dance and food festival. ([http://www.curryfest.com.au/ Website])
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| Darling Harbour Fiesta || [[Darling Harbour]], Sydney || 1993 || Latin music, dance, food and culture, held annually in October. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160229222336/http://darlingharbour.com/whats-on/fiesta/ Website])
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| [[Defqon.1 Festival]] || [[Penrith, New South Wales|Penrith]] || 2009 || Hardstyle electronic music festival, held annually in September up until 2018. Festival also held in the Netherlands since 2003 and Chile since 2015. ([http://defqon1.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Deniliquin#Deni Play on the Plains Festival|Deniliquin Ute muster]] ||[[Deniliquin]]||1999|| The Deniliquin Ute Muster and Play on the Plains Festival is held on the October Labour Day long weekend. ([http://www.deniutemuster.com.au/ Website])
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| Electrofringe  || [[Sydney]] || 1998 || Annual electronic arts festival and community organisation. Formally held in Newcastle 1998–2014. ([https://electrofringe.net Website])
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| [[Festival of Dangerous Ideas]] ||Sydney||2009|| Discussions and debates held annually at the Sydney Opera House. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160624041435/http://fodi.sydneyoperahouse.com/ Website])
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| [[Festival Fatale]]
| Sydney
| 2016
| Women's theatre festival at the [[Eternity Playhouse]]
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| [[Fisher's ghost#The Festival|Festival of Fisher's Ghost]] || [[Campbelltown, New South Wales|Campbelltown]] || 1956 || Held annually in November: Arts, Music, Street Parade, Carnival, Cultural activities. ([http://www.fishersghost.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Festival of the Sun]] ||[[Port Macquarie]]||2001|| Outdoor music festival held in December. ([http://fotsun.com/ Website])
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| [[Festival of the Winds]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/info/pavilion/fotw |title= Festival of the Winds: Waverley Council|website=www.waverley.nsw.gov.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401234613/http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/info/pavilion/fotw |archive-date=1 April 2011}}</ref> || [[Bondi Beach]], Sydney || 1978 || Kite Flying, Media Arts. Held annually in September. ([https://www.festivalofthewinds.com.au/ Website])
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|[[FOMO Festival]]
|[[Parramatta Park, New South Wales|Parramatta Park]]
|2017
|ONE STAGE • NO CLASHES • PARTY TOGETHER ([http://www.fomofestival.com.au website])
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| Folk by the Sea<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.folkbythesea.com.au/ |title=Folk by the Sea, Kiama - Home Page |publisher=Davidaccfolk |date=13 April 2014 |accessdate=13 April 2014}}</ref> || [[Kiama, New South Wales|Kiama]] || 2013 ||Folk music festival, held annually in September. ([http://www.folkbythesea.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Future Music Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.futuremusicfestival.com.au/syd/fmf08.html |title= Future Music Festival|website=www.futuremusicfestival.com.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015155238/http://www.futuremusicfestival.com.au/syd/fmf08.html |archive-date=15 October 2008}}</ref> || [[Randwick Racecourse]], Sydney || 2006 || Electro House Music
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| [[Granny Smith Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/news/granny.htm |title= Granny Smith Festival|website=www.ryde.nsw.gov.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911223119/http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/news/granny.htm |archive-date=11 September 2009}}</ref> || [[Eastwood, New South Wales|Eastwood]], Sydney || 1985 || Apple themed festival celebrating local pioneer [[Maria Ann Smith|Maria Ann "Granny" Smith]]. Held annually in October. ([http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/Events/Granny-Smith-Festival Website])
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| The Gum Ball || [[Belford, New South Wales|Belford]], Hunter Valley || 2005 || Music Festival. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160130160530/http://dashville.com.au/the-gum-ball/home/ Website])
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|The Good Dog! International Film Festival|| Sydney ||2012||Annual film festival featuring dogs. ([http://www.gooddogff.com/ Website])
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| [[The Henry Lawson Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henrylawsonfestival.com.au |title=Welcome to the Henry Lawson Festival – Grenfell, NSW |publisher=Henry Lawson Festival |date=6 September 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| [[Grenfell, New South Wales|Grenfell]] || 1958 || Annual arts festival held over the June long weekend. ([http://www.henrylawsonfestival.com.au/ Website])
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| [http://www.headon.com.au/ Head On Photo Festival] || Sydney || 2010 || Annual international photography festival ([http://www.headon.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Holi Mahotsav]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.holimahotsav.com.au |title= Holi Mahotsav |publisher=Holimahotsav.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| [[Darling Harbour]], Sydney || 2003 || Annual cultural festival held in March. ([http://holimahotsav.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Hunter Valley Steamfest]] || [[Maitland, New South Wales|Maitland]]|| 1986 || Steam Locomotive Festival held in April. ([https://www.steamfest.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Ignite Film Festival]] || Sydney|| 2004 || Christian Short Film Festival. ([http://www.ignitefilmfest.com/ Website])
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| [[Illawarra Folk Festival]] || [[Bulli, New South Wales|Bulli]], [[Wollongong]] || 1985 ||Annual international folk festival held on the 3rd weekend in January. ([http://www.illawarrafolkfestival.com.au/ Website])
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| [[Ironfest (Lithgow)|Ironfest]] || [[Lithgow, New South Wales|Lithgow]]|| 2000 || Annual iron themed, historical and cultural festival held in April. ([http://ironfest.net/ Website])
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| [[Jacaranda Festival]]||[[Grafton, New South Wales|Grafton]]||1935|| Folk festival held in late October to early November ([https://www.jacarandafestival.com/ Website])
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| KISS Arts Festival (Kiama International Seaside Arts Festival) || [[Kiama, New South Wales|Kiama]] || 2012 || Annual festival held in April. Comedy, Music, Circus & Performance ([http://kissartsfestival.com.au/ Website])
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|Lanterns on the Lagoon and Sculptures in the Park
|Tumut
|2011
|Lanterns on the Lagoon is a festival celebrating reflection, sustainable art and sculpture.
Coinciding with the Spring Equinox each year, visitors are welcomed with music, fine food and entertainment as they meander throughout the park to marvel at sculptures crafted from recycled, reclaimed and sustainable materials. At dusk, hand-decorated lanterns are gently released onto the lagoon as the park and sculptures are transformed by elegant lighting. (http://lanternsonthelagoon.com.au/)
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|Maitland Indie Festival
|Maitland
|2020
|Annual festival. The ''Maitland Indie Festival'' started in 2020, with its primary focus being on supporting local, independent literature, writing and music markets. ({{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20200803172925/https://ifmaitland.org/ Website]}})
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| Malaysia Festival (MFest)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.malaysiafest.com.au |title=Malaysia Festival '12 » A Celebration Of Taste and Culture |publisher=Malaysiafest.com.au |date=23 September 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Pyrmont, New South Wales|Pyrmont]], Sydney || 1990 || Annual community and Malaysian cultural festival. ([http://www.malaysiafest.com.au/ Website])
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| Merimbula Jazz Festival || [[Merimbula]]|| 1981 || Jazz music Festival, held over the June long weekend. ([http://www.merimbulajazz.org.au/ Website])
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|Mullum Music Festival || [[Mullumbimby]] || 2008 || The biggest little festival happens each November  ([http://mullummusicfestival.com Website])
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| Mudgee Wine and Food Festival ||[[Mudgee]]|| || Annual wine and food festival, held in September to early October. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160226105754/http://www.visitmudgeeregion.com.au/whats-on/mudgee-wine-festival Website])
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| Mulwala Rock Isle Festival|| [[Mulwala, New South Wales|Mulwala]] || Easter weekend 1972 || Rock Festival. Rain turned the Camp site into a quagmire and the final day was cancelled. ([http://www.milesago.com/festivals/mulwala.htm/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[National Young Writers' Festival]] || Newcastle || 1998 || Writers Festival. ([http://www.youngwritersfestival.org/ Website])
|-
|Newcastle Music Festival
|Newcastle
|2016
|Annual fine music festival for classical, jazz and other genres, invited local and international performers. Festival Choir and Festival Orchestra opportunities for community members. ([https://www.newcastlemusicfestival.org/ Website])
|-
|Newcastle Writers Festival
|Newcastle
|2013
|Annual writers festival with packed program of events, mostly free to the community. Range of writers and speakers on diverse topics. ([http://www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Newton's Nation]] || [[Bathurst, New South Wales|Bathurst]] || 2008 || Annual gravity sports and music festival, formally known as ''Newton's Playground''. ([http://www.newtonsnation.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Newtown Festival || [[Newtown, New South Wales|Newtown]], Sydney || 1978 || Annual community festival which ran from 1978 to 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Attanasio |first=Joe |date=11 May 2023 |title=Newtown Festival calls curtains after 40 years |url=https://www.9news.com.au/national/newtown-festival-to-close-after-40-years/ea2c9419-e3d0-4605-811a-dc53891a2653 |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=www.9news.com.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Alex |date=10 May 2023 |title=Sydney's Newtown Festival Calls It a Day After More Than 40 Years |url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/newtown-festival-sydney-calls-it-a-day-after-more-than-40-years/ |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=Music Feeds |language=en-US}}</ref> ([http://www.newtownfestival.org/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[http://oheartfest.com O'Heart Festival]||Tyalgum||2016|| The O’Heart Festival is a three-day, acoustic folk event, contained within a massive 3 day market, intertwined with spirituality workshops and sustainability education presentations. Held mid to late August. 
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Orange Blossom Festival]]||[[Castle Hill, New South Wales|Castle Hill]]||1960|| Held annually in September. ([http://www.orangeblossomfestival.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Parramasala ||[[Parramatta]]|| 2010 || South Asian multicultural festival held in March. ([http://www.parramasala.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Parkes Elvis Festival]]||[[Parkes, New South Wales|Parkes]]|| 1993 || Elvis Music Festival held annually in January. ([http://www.parkeselvisfestival.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Peak Festival ||[[Perisher Valley]]|| 2009 || Music festival held over the June long weekend. ([http://peakfestival.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Pohela Boishakh]] ||[[Sydney Olympic Park]]|| 2008 || [[Bengali New Year]] festival celebrated on 14 April.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bangabandhucouncil.com.au/boishakhi-mela/|title=BOISHAKHI MELA|publisher=Boishakhi Mela|accessdate=4 April 2018}}</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Roaring 20s and all that Jazz Festival||[[Blue Mountains (New South Wales)|Blue Mountains]] – Various locations || 2013 || 1920s themed festival. Month-long event held in February. ([http://roaring20s.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Rootstock Sydney<ref name="rootstocksydney">{{cite web|url=http://rootstocksydney.com|title=Rootstock Sydney|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213214230/http://rootstocksydney.com/|archive-date=13 February 2013|url-status=dead|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>||[[Eveleigh]], Sydney || 2013 || Sustainable food and wine festival. Held annually in November. ([http://www.rootstocksydney.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| St Albans Folk Festival<ref>http://www.snalbans.iwarp.com {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005032813/http://www.snalbans.iwarp.com/|date=5 October 2008}}</ref>||[[St Albans, New South Wales|St Albans]]|| 1980 || Traditional and contemporary folk music festival, held annually in late April. ([http://www.stalbansfolkfestival.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Scone Horse Festival ||[[Scone, New South Wales|Scone]]|| 1980 || Horse themed community festival held annually in October. Includes the Scone Cup. ([https://sconehorsefestival.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[See Change Festival]]||[[Jervis Bay]] area || 2000 || Biennial arts festival held in the Jervis Bay and St Georges Basin area, of the City of Shoalhaven, in late May and early June. ([http://www.seechangefestival.org.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"|
| Shore Thing ||[[Bondi Beach]]|| 2005 || Annual New Year's Eve festival. ([http://www.shorething.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Spectrum Now Festival || Sydney – Various venues|| 2015 || Art, Music, Stage, Talks and exhibitions. Held annually in March. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160118175716/http://spectrumnow.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Splendour in the Grass]]|| North Byron Parklands, [[Yelgun]]|| 2001 || Music festival – Indie rock, hip hop, electronic, alternative. Held annually in July/August. ([http://www.splendourinthegrass.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Stereosonic]]||[[Sydney Olympic Park]]|| 2007 || Electronic and dance music festival ([http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120714115920/http%3A//www.stereosonic.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Sunburnt Christmas<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sunburntchristmas.com|title=Christmas Day Festival at Bondi Beach|publisher=Sunburnt Christmas|accessdate=14 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426011329/http://www.sunburntchristmas.com/|archive-date=26 April 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>||[[Bondi Beach]], Sydney || 2002 || Christmas Day Music Festival. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160126211859/http://sunburntchristmas.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Surfing the Coldstream Festival ||[[Yamba, New South Wales|Yamba]]|| 2008 || Annual festival held annually in October - Arts, music, film, entertainment. ([http://www.surfingthecoldstream.com.au/main.html Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Sydney Blues and Roots Festival ||[[Windsor, New South Wales|Windsor]]||2009|| Music festival, held annually in October. ([http://sydneybluesandrootsfestival.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Sydney Cherry Blossom Festival || [[Auburn Botanic Gardens]], [[Auburn, New South Wales|Auburn]], Sydney || 2011 || Held annually in August. ([https://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/sydneycherryblossomfestival Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Sydney Children's Festival || First Fleet Park, [[The Rocks, New South Wales|The Rocks]], Sydney || 2008 || Held annually in March. ([http://www.childrensfestival.com.au/index.php/the-festival/sydney Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Sydney Chinese New Year Festival ||Sydney|| 1997 || Annual festival held annually in January to February. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20180904021920/https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/major-events/chinese-new-year-festival Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sydney Comedy Festival]]|| Sydney – Various venues|| 2005 || Annual comedy festival held in April–May. ([http://www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Sydney Craft Beer Week || Sydney – Various venues|| 2012 || Beer Festival. ([https://www.sydneycraftbeerweek.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sydney Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au|title=Sydney Festival|publisher=Sydney Festival|accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>||Sydney|| 1977 || Major Arts Festival, held between first and last week of January, annually. ([http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sydney Film Festival]]|| Sydney|| 1954|| Annual film festival, held in June. ([http://www.sff.org.au// Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sydney Fringe Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesydneyfringe.com.au|title= Sydney Fringe Festival |publisher= Sydney Fringe Festival |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221215257/http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/|archive-date=21 February 2012|url-status=dead|accessdate=14 October 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>|| Various locations – [[Inner West]], Sydney|| 1994 (2010 in current format) || Alternative arts and culture festival ([https://www.sydneyfringe.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mardigras.org.au|title=Mardi Gras|publisher=Mardi Gras|accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| Sydney || 24 June 1978 || Festival, Parade and Party, during February/March annually. ([http://www.mardigras.org.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sydney International Piano Competition]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sipca.com.au/|title=The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia|publisher=Sipca.com.au|accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| Sydney|| 1977 || International Piano Competition held every four years: 1981, 1985, 1988 (to coincide with the Australian Bicentennial celebrations), 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2012. ([http://www.sydneypianocompetition.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Sydney St Patrick's Day Festival|| [[The Rocks, New South Wales|The Rocks]]|| 1790s in various forms. 1970s in current format.|| Irish themed festival, currently held on weekends around 17 March. ([https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/celebrating_st_patricks_day_in_nineteenth_century_sydney#ref-uuid=1a84e7f5-785a-8ef6-837b-8f8ab85eaece/ Early history])([https://www.sydneystpatricksday.com/ Website])
|-
|Sydney Underground Film Festival
|Sydney
|2006
|Alternative, independent and experimental film festival. Held annually in Sydney at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville and in 2020 & 2021 streamed online due to COVID ([https://suff.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sydney Writers' Festival]]|| Sydney||1997|| Annual literary festival, held mid - late May. ([http://www.swf.org.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tamworth Country Music Festival]]||[[Tamworth, New South Wales|Tamworth]]|| 1973 || Annual Country Music festival, held in January. ([http://www.tcmf.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Taste of the World Beer Fest ||[[New Lambton]], Newcastle||2011|| Annual beer festival in January. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160204130709/http://tasteoftheworld.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Thirlmere Festival of Steam ||[[Thirlmere, New South Wales|Thirlmere]]|| 1989 || Age of steam themed annual community festival, held in March. ([http://www.thirlmerefestivalofsteam.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[This Is Not Art]]|| Newcastle || 1998 || Independent contemporary arts festival, held annually in late September to early October. ([http://www.thisisnotart.org/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Thredbo Jazz Festival]]<ref name="thredbojazz">{{cite web|url=http://thredbojazz.com.au|title=Thredbo Jazz Festival &#124; Thredbo Alpine Village|publisher=thredbojazz.com.au|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>|| [[Thredbo]]||1987|| Annual Jazz Music festival, held in May ([https://www.thredbo.com.au/thredbojazzfestival/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tropfest]] & [[Trop Jr]]||[[Parramatta]], Sydney||1993|| Short Film festival held in February. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110722015227/http://www.tropfest.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tulip Time (Bowral)|Tulip Time]]||[[Bowral]]|| 1960 || Annual spring festival. ([http://www.southern-highlands.com.au/events/tulip-time Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tweed Valley Banana Festival]]||[[Murwillumbah]]|| 1956 || Last week in August each year. ([http://www.bananafestival.org/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Uranquinty Folk Festival ||[[Uranquinty]], [[Wagga Wagga]] || 1970 || Folk music festival, held annually on the October Labour Day long weekend. Originated as the ''Wagga Wagga Folk Festival'' held at [[Downside, New South Wales|Downside]], until moving to Uranquinty in 1974. ([http://www.uranquintyfolk.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Village Fair]]||[[Bathurst, New South Wales|Bathurst]]||1974|| Music Festival – Rock, Alternative, Indie, Hip hop, Electronic.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Vivid Sydney]]|| Sydney || 2009 || Annual outdoor lighting festival, held from May to June. ([http://www.vividsydney.com/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"|
|[[Warners Bay Beer Festival]]||[[Warners Bay]], [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]]||2009|| Beer Festival
|-
|[[Winter Magic Festival]]
|[[Katoomba, New South Wales|Katoomba]]
|1994
|Annual festival celebrated around the Winter Solstice in June. ([http://www.wintermagic.com.au/ Website])
|}

==Northern Territory==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="width:25%;"|Festival!! style="width:30%;"|Location!! style="width:15%;"|Began / When!! style="width:30%;"|Notes
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Alice Desert Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alicedesertfestival.com.au/ |title=Alice Desert Festival 2012 &#124; Central Australia's Premier Arts & Culture Festival |publisher=Alicedesertfestival.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>  || Alice Springs and the surrounding region || 2000 || Arts and cultural festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Darwin Beer Can Regatta]] ||[[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] || 1974 || Beer boat race
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Darwin Festival]] ||Darwin || 1978 || Arts and cultural festival
|-
|[[Darwin Fringe Festival]]
|Darwin
|2015
|Arts and cultural festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Henley-on-Todd Regatta]] || [[Alice Springs]] || 1962 ||
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures]] ||[[Arnhem Land]] ||1998||It is a celebration of the cultural inheritance of the [[Yolngu]] people.
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Pure Sounds In The Park ||[[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] || 2009 ||Music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Bassinthegrass]] ||[[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] || 2003 ||Music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Bassinthedust]] ||[[Alice Springs]] || 2003 ||Music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Isotopia Festival]] ||[[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] || 2005 ||Music festival
|}

==Queensland==
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="width:25%;"|Name!! style="width:20%;"|Location!! style="width:5%;"|Began!! style="width:20%;"|Date!! style="width:25%;"|Notes
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Australian Festival of Chamber Music]]|| [[Townsville]]|| 1991|| ||
|-
|[[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
|-
|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)]
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[BeerFestABull]]||Innes Park||2010||22–23 September 2012||Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Bleach*]]||[[Coolangatta, Queensland|Coolangatta]]||2010|| ||Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Brisbane International Youth Music Festival]]||[[Brisbane]]||2012|| ||
|-
|[[Brisbane Pride Festival]]||Brisbane||1990|| ||Annual
|-
|[[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 || 
|-
|[[Broadbeach Country Music Festival]]||[[Broadbeach]]||2012||August||Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Burleigh Heads Single Fin Festival]]||[[Burleigh Heads]]||2010|| ||Annual
|-
|Buskers by the Lake
|Lake Kawana, Sunshine Coast
|2014
|October
|Annual
|-
|[[Cardwell UFO Festival]]||[[Cardwell, Queensland|Cardwell]]||2014||Third Saturday in October||Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|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
|-
|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
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[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
|-
|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
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Caxton Street Seafood and Wine Festival]]||Brisbane||1994|| ||Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|Childers Festival<ref>[http://www.childersfestival.com.au Childers Festival], Childers Festival website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Childers, Queensland|Childers]]||1996||July||Annual
|-
|[[Cooly Rocks On]]||[[Coolangatta, Queensland|Coolangatta]]/[[Tweed Heads]]||2011||June||
|-
|[[Dead of Winter Festival]]||Brisbane||2009||June||Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Dirt n Dust Festival]]||[[Julia Creek, Queensland|Julia Creek]]||1995||April ||Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Easterfest]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/easterfest |title=Easterfest |publisher=[[Facebook]] |accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref>||[[Toowoomba]]||1999||Varies||Annual
|-
|The Dreaming||[[Woodford, Queensland|Woodford]]||2005||June||International indigenous festival
|-
|FOMO Festival
|Brisbane
|2016
|January
|Annual ([http://www.fomofestival.com.au website])
|-
|[[The GarterBelts and Gasoline Nostalgia Festival]]||[[Mount Tamborine, Queensland|Mount Tamborine]]||2002|| ||Annual
|-
|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
|-
|Gemfest<ref>[http://gemfest.com.au Gemfest: A Festival of Gems], Gemfest website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[The Gemfields]]||1988||August||Annual
|-
|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
|-
|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
|-
|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||
|-
|[[Gold Coast International Food, Wine and Music Festival]]||[[Robina, Queensland|Robina]]||2002|| ||Annual
|-
|[[Gold Coast Film Festival]]||[[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]]||2002|| April
|Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|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
|-
|[[Gympie Muster]]||[[Amamoor Forest Reserve]]||1982||||Annual
|-
| Island Elements Festival
| Adder Rock, North Stradbroke Island
| 2015
| 23–25 October
| Annual
|-
| 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
|-
||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
|-
||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
|-
||[[Kirra Kite Festival]]||[[Kirra, Queensland|Kirra]]||2000||July||Annual
|-
||[[Mary Valley Art Festival]]||[[Imbil, Queensland|Imbil]]||2000||July||Annual
|-
|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
|-
|[[Miles Back to the Bush Festival]]||Miles||2018||September||Biennial
|-
|[[Milking the Cow Beer Lovers Festival]]||Toowoomba||2010||June||Annual
|-
|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
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Noosa Festival of Surfing]]||[[Noosa, Queensland|Noosa]]||1992|| Late Feb/early March||Annual
|-
|[[Noosa Long Weekend Festival]]||Noosa|| July 2001 ||July||Annual{{cn|date=June 2023}}
|-
|[[Oktoberfest Brisbane]]||Brisbane||2002||October||Annual
|-
|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
|-
|[[Port Douglas Carnivale]]|| [[Port Douglas]]||1994||May||Annual
|-
|[[Queensland Beer Week]]||Queensland||2010||June||Annual
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Queensland Poetry Festival]]||Brisbane||1997||Last weekend of August||Annual
|-
|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
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Ripe (festival)|Ripe]]||Noosa||2009|| ||
|-|
|[[River Sessions]]||[[Mackay, Queensland|Mackay]]||2009||July||Annual
|-
|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
|-
|[[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  
|-
|[[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
|-
|[[Shockwave Festival]]||Blackall||2014||2–3 August||Annual
|-
|Soundwave||Brisbane|| || ||Annual
|-
|[[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>
|-
|SPRUKE – Brisbane's Ukulele Festival 
|Brisbane
|2013
|Spring (usually late September or early October)
|Biennial ([http://www.spruke.net.au/ Website])
|-
||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|| ||
|-
||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
|-
|[[Sunshine Coast Ukulele Fest]]
|Sunshine Coast/Kenilworth
|2014
|14–17 April 2016
|Annual  [http://www.sunshinecoastukulelefest.com (Website)]
|-
||[[Surfers Paradise Festival]]||[[Surfers Paradise]]||??|| || annual
|-
||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
|-
|[[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
|-
|VDMfest<ref>[http://www.vdmfest.com.au VDMfest], VDMfest website. Retrieved 9 December 2017.</ref>||[[Biloela]]||2017||October||Annual
|-
|Village Festival<ref>[http://thevillagefestival.org.au The Village Festival], The Village Festival website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Yeppoon]]||2003||August||Annual

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

|-
|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||
|-
|[[Wintersun Festival]]||[[Coolangatta, Queensland|Coolangatta]]/[[Tweed Heads]]||1978||June||
|-
|[[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
|-
|Yeppoon Pinefest<ref>[http://www.yeppoonlions.com.au/pinefest Pinefest], Yeppoon Lions website. Retrieved 7 December 2017.</ref>||[[Yeppoon]]||1967||October||Annual
|-
|[[Yungaburra Folk Festival]]||[[Yungaburra]]||1997||May||Annual
|}

==South Australia==
<!-- Be careful to list the first event year, not the year of establishment of the organising committee -->
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="width:25%;"|Festival!! style="width:30%;"|Location!! style="width:15%;"|Began / When!! style="width:30%;"|Notes

|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide 500]]  || [[Adelaide]] || 1999 ||Was Clipsal 500; annual motor racing event on Adelaide streets in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art]] || [[Art Gallery of South Australia]]|| 1990<ref>{{cite web|title=conVerge|url=http://www.adelaidebiennial.com/cocoon/adelaidebiennial/exhibition.xml|work=Exhibition|publisher=Art Gallery of South Australia|accessdate=30 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020609204037/http://www.adelaidebiennial.com/cocoon/adelaidebiennial/exhibition.xml|archive-date=9 June 2002|df=dmy-all}}</ref>  ||"The flagship visual arts event of the Adelaide Festival of Arts"<ref>{{cite web|title=2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art|url=http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions/Past_Exhibitions/2010/2010_Adelaide_Biennial_of_Australian_Art.html|work=Exhibitions|publisher=Art Gallery of South Australia|accessdate=30 June 2011}}</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Cabaret Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2001 ||Annual in June
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Adelaide Fashion Festival<ref>{{cite web|title=Adelaide Fashion Festival 2012 opening party|url=http://notsonaked.com.au/blog/adelaide-fashion-festival-2012|website=Notsonaked|accessdate=24 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322164602/http://www.notsonaked.com.au/blog/adelaide-fashion-festival-2012|archive-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> || [[Adelaide]] || 2008 ||Annual
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Festival of Arts]] || [[Adelaide]] || 1960 ||Was biennial, annual since 2012; aka Adelaide Festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Festival of Ideas]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1999 ||Biennial
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Film Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2003 ||Biennial
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Food Fringe]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://citymag.indaily.com.au/habits/plate-and-cup/adelaide-food-fringe-launches-its-2021-program/ | title=Adelaide Food Fringe launches its 2021 program | date=23 March 2021 }}</ref> || [[South Australia]]|| 2020 || One of South Australia's largest food and beverage festivals.<ref>[http://adelaidefoodfringe.com.au/ Website]</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Fringe]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1960 ||Was biennial now annual (as of 2007)
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Guitar Festival]] ||[[Adelaide]]|| 2007 ||Was annual now biennial (as of 2009)
|-
|[[Adelaide Jazz Festival]]
|[[Adelaide]]
|2023
|
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Language Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2014 ||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Adelaide Writers' Week]] || [[Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden (Adelaide)]]|| 1960 ||Part of the Adelaide Festival; annual in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Big Day Out]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1993–2014 ||Multi-city music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Burnout (festival)|Burnout]]|| [[Mutonia, Alberrie Creek|Mutonia]], [[Alberrie Creek]], [[Oodnadatta Track]] || 2004 || was Mighty Burning Demon Festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Cabaret Fringe Festival]]|| [[Adelaide]]|| 2008 ||Annual open-access festival in June<ref>{{official|http://www.cabaretfringefestival.com/about/|Cabaret Fringe Festival: About}}</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Cheesefest; Cheesefest + Ferment || [[Adelaide]]|| 2007–2013; 2017– || Ran as Cheesefest until 2013; Ferment 2017; Cheesefest & Ferment 2018–<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodandbeveragefundsa.com.au/cgi-bin/page.cgi?id=107|website=Food & Beverage Development Fund SA|title=Sponsorships|access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{official|https://cheesefest.com.au/|Cheesefest}}</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[A Day On The Green]]|| [[Barossa Valley]], then [[McLaren Vale]] || ||Annual
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[DreamBIG Children's Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1974 ||Biennial; formerly Come Out
|- style="text-align:left;"|
|[[Feast Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1997 ||Australia's biggest lesbian and gay arts festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Fleurieu Folk Festival<ref>{{cite web|author=Peter Thornton |url=http://www.fleurieufolkfestival.com.au |title=A Weekend of Fabulous Folk Music, Poetry & Dance |website=Fleurieu Folk Festival |date=1 January 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| [[Willunga, South Australia]] || 2007 || Folk Festival held annually in October on the Fleurieu Peninsula
|-
|FOMO Festival
|[[Elder Park]], Adelaide
|2017
|Multi-city festival in January<ref>[http://www.fomofestival.com.au website{{!}}FOMO]</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Future Music Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]||2006–2015  ||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Gawler Gourmet & Heritage Festival || [[Gawler, South Australia|Gawler]] || ||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Illuminate Adelaide]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Art, Light & Technology | website=Illuminate Adelaide | url=https://www.illuminateadelaide.com/ | access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Illuminate Adelaide set to light up winter in 2021 | website=Tourism SA | date=10 August 2020 | url=https://tourism.sa.gov.au/news-articles/illuminate-adelaide-set-to-light-up-winter-in-2021 | access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref> || [[Adelaide]]
|2021
|Includes [[Adelaide Festival of Ideas]]
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Kernewek Lowender]] || [[Kadina, South Australia|Kadina]], [[Moonta, South Australia|Moonta]] and [[Wallaroo, South Australia|Wallaroo]] || 1973 || Biennial, [[Cornish Australians|Cornish]]-themed festival held in Copper Coast towns
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Leafy Sea Dragon Festival]] || [[Fleurieu Peninsula]] || 2005–2013(?) ||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Live at the Zoo]] || [[Monarto, South Australia|Monarto]] || 2008 ||(one-off)
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Lizard's Revenge]]|| [[Roxby Downs, South Australia|Roxby Downs]] || 2012 || Annual Music Arts and Culture Festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Oysterfest]]|| [[Ceduna, South Australia|Ceduna]] || 1991 || Held annually on the October Labour Day long weekend.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ceduna.sa.gov.au/oysterfest |title=Website |access-date=1 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015060913/http://www.ceduna.sa.gov.au/oysterfest |archive-date=15 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/oysterfest-returns-to-ceduna-attracting-5-000-oyster-lovers/101489990 Oysterfest returns to Ceduna after two-year hiatus, attracting 5,000 oyster lovers] ''ABC News'', 30 September 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[OzAsia Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]||2007  ||Annual; includes [[Jaipur Literature Festival#JLF International|JLF International (literary festival)]] since 2018
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[South Australian Living Artists Festival|SALA Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1998 || South Australian Living Artists Festival, Annual Celebration of the Visual Arts
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Schützenfest (Adelaide)|Schützenfest]] || [[Adelaide]] ||  || Shooting and Beer Festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Sea and Vines Festival || [[McLaren Vale, South Australia|McLaren Vale]] ||  ||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Soundwave (Australian music festival)|Soundwave]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2007–2015 ||Multi-city music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[South Australia's History Festival]] || [[South Australia]]|| 2004 || SA's largest festival, 1–31 May; over 600 individual events in 2016.<ref>[http://historyfestival.sa.gov.au/ Website]</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Stereosonic]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2009–2005 ||Annual; [[electronic dance music]] festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tarnanthi]] || [[Art Gallery of South Australia]], [[Adelaide]]|| 2015 ||Annual in October; Contemporary Aboriginal and TSI Art 
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Umbrella: Winter City Sounds]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2016 ||Annual in July; multi-genre music festival in multiple venues
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Vegan Festival || [[Rundle Park, Adelaide]]|| 2007 ||Annual in October; celebrates and showcases vegan food and lifestyle<ref>{{cite web|url =https://veganfestival.info/about|website =Vegan festival|title=About|access-date =24 October 2019}}</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[WOMADelaide]] || [[Botanic Park, Adelaide]]|| 1992 ||Annual (since 2003); 4 days in March; [[world music]]
|}

==Tasmania==

{{see also|List of events in Tasmania}}

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="width:25%;"|Festival!! style="width:30%;"|Location!! style="width:15%;"|Began / When!! style="width:30%;"|Notes
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Agfest  || [[Carrick, Tasmania|Carrick]] || 1982 || Held in May
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Australian Wooden Boat Festival]] || [[Hobart]] || 1994 || Held in February, biennial
|-
|The Derwent Valley Autumn Festival 
|The Esplanade, New Norfolk
|2000
|Held in April
|-
|The Derwent Valley Medieval Festival
|Kensington Park New Norfolk
|2016
|Held in October
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Henley-on-Mersey || Bells Parade, Latrobe || 1910 || Held on Australia Day (26 January) featuring food, fun, fitness and ferrets.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Australian Shakespeare Festival  || [[Hobart]] || || Held in January
|-
|Dark Mofo
|Hobart
|2013
|Held in June
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Devil Country Muster || [[Smithton, Tasmania|Smithton]] || 2013 || Held in February
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Kentish Arts Festival || [[Sheffield, Tasmania|Sheffield]] || || Held in March–April
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Festivale || [[Launceston, Tasmania|Launceston]] || 1988 || Held in February
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Falls Festival]]  || [[Hobart]] || || Held in January
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Festival of Broadway  || [[Hobart]] || || Held in June
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[http://www.foki.com.au/ Festival of King Island (FOKI)] || [[King Island (Tasmania)]] || 2013 || 1st weekend of February. Folk, Blues, Rock, Country, Indie, Surf, and a touch of Jazz. All ages.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Fractangular Gathering – Open Air Collaborative Arts Festival || [[Buckland, Tasmania|Buckland]] || ||Was held in February, no longer happening
|-
|Huon Valley Mid Winter Festival
|Grove
|
|
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Mural Fest || [[Sheffield, Tasmania|Sheffield]] || || Held on Easter Sunday
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[http://www.cygnetfolkfestival.org/ The Cygnet Folk Festival] || [[Cygnet, Tasmania|Cygnet]] || 1979 || Held in January
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tamar Valley Beer Festival]]|| [[Tamar Valley (Tasmania)|Tamar Valley]] || 2010 || Held in January
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tasmanian Beerfest]]|| [[Hobart, Tasmania|Princes Wharf]] || 2006 || Held in November
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[TastroFest – Tasmania's Astronomy Festival]]|| [[Ulverstone, Tasmania|Ulverstone]], [[North West Tasmania]] || 2015 || Held in August
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[https://www.thetasteoftasmania.com.au The Taste Of Tasmania Festival] || [[Hobart]] || 1988 || Held on 28 December– 3 January Annually
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Taste of the Huon|| Ranelagh || 1995 || Held in March
|-
|Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival
|Hobart
|2019
|Held in October/November ([https://www.terroraustralisfestival.com Website])
|-
|The Unconformity
|Queenstown
|2010
|Held biennially in October ([https://www.theunconformity.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[https://mofo.net.au MONA FOMA]|| [[Hobart]] and Launceston ||  2008|| Held in January until 2022, Held in February 2023
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Chocolate Winterfest, Latrobe || Latrobe || 2004 || Held in August – a wickedly delicious festival celebrating all things chocolate.
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [https://www.tendays.org.au 10 Days on the Island]|| Statewide || 2001 || Held in March
|}

==Victoria==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="width:25%;"|Festival!! style="width:30%;"|Location!! style="width:15%;"|Began
!Date !! style="width:30%;" |Notes
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Altona Bayside ||[[Altona, Victoria|Altona]] || 1997 
||| Community Festival with Street Parade and Fireworks, held annually over a weekend in March.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Apollo Bay Music Festival || [[Apollo Bay, Victoria|Apollo Bay]] || 
|||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Art is... festival || [[Horsham, Victoria|Horsham]] || 1995 
||| Annual Arts Festival
|-
|ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE
|[[Melbourne]]
|2015
|
|Biennial arts festival focusing on climate change and the environment.
|-
|Australian Contemporary Opera Co.
|Melbourne, Yarra Valley
|2017
|
|Annual Opera Festival
|- style="text-align:left;"

|[[Ballarat Beer Festival]]|| [[Ballarat]] 
|1995|| ||Annual Beer Festival In January
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[BeerFest]]|| [[Melbourne]] || 1952 
||| Annual Beer Festival in February
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Beers by the Bay]]|| [[Mornington, Victoria|Mornington]] || 1952 
||| Annual Beer Festival on 17 November 2012
|-
|[[Bendigo Blues and Roots Music Festival|Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival]]
|Bendigo
|2011
|
|Annual Blues & Roots Music Festival usually held on the first week of November each year.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Bendigo Easter Festival]] || [[Bendigo]] || 1871 
||| Held annually over the Easter long weekend. Australia's oldest ongoing community festival.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Begonia Festival]] || [[Ballarat]] || 1952 || March 
|| Community cultural festival with [[begonia]] theme – [[Labour Day#Australia|Labour Day]] long weekend
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Beyond The Valley Festival]] || [[Lardner, Victoria]] || 2014 
||| A multi-day music festival held annually at [[Gippsland]] Parklands in [[Lardner, Victoria]], [[Australia]] over the New Year's Eve period.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Big West Festival || [[Footscray, Victoria|Footscray]] || 1997 
||| Biennial Contemporary Arts and Cultural Festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Broadford Country Music Festival || [[Broadford, Victoria|Broadford]] || 
||| Country music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Bruthen Blues and Arts Festival || [[Bruthen, Victoria|Bruthen]] || 1994 || third weekend in February annually
|| a weekend of blues music and fun
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Brewers Feast Craft Beer and Food Festival || [[Abbotsford, Victoria|Melbourne]] || 2016 to present || first weekend in December annually
|| a weekend of independent Beer, paired with craft food and music
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Buddha's Day and Multicultural Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buddhaday.org.au |title=Buddha's Day and Multicultural Festival 2012, Buddhist Festival, Buddhist Celebrations, Buddhism Ceremonies, Buddhism for Kids Events |publisher=Buddhaday.org.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Federation Square]], Melbourne || 1995 
||| Annual Buddhist Festival celebrating the Buddha's Birthday
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Castlemaine State Festival of the Arts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.castlemainefestival.com.au/ |title=Castlemaine State Festival |publisher=Castlemainefestival.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Castlemaine, Victoria|Castlemaine]] || 1976
||| Multi-arts, 10-day, Biennial Festival in odd years, March/April.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Dancing Ground Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dancingground.org/ |title=Dancing Ground Festival |publisher=danicingground.org |accessdate=27 January 2014}}</ref> || [[Gembrook, Victoria|Gembrook]] || 2011
||| Weekend dance and movement workshop festival. Camping based, includes meals. Annually in February.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Environmental Film Festival Melbourne<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.effm.org.au/ |title=Environmental Film Festival Melbourne - Home |publisher=Effm.org.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005001532/http://www.effm.org.au/ |archive-date=5 October 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> || [[Melbourne]] || 2010 
||| Environmental films from Australia and around the world
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Earthcore]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earthcore.com.au/ |title=Earthcore|publisher=earthcore.com.au |accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> || [[Pyalong, Victoria|Pyalong]] || 1993 
|||  Earthcore hosted the first Bush [[Doof]] to be held in Australia and continues to every year during November.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Falls Festival]] || [[Lorne, Victoria|Lorne]] || 1993 
||| Music festival – 29 December to 1 January
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Fest la Frog || [[French Island, Victoria|French Island]] || 7–13 April 
|||
|-
|Festival of Sails
|[[Geelong]]
|1844
|
|
|-
|Foggy Mountain Bluegrass Festival
|Kinglake
|2014
|October
|Annual festival – Bluegrass music performances and workshops ([http://fmbluegrass.com.au/ Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Folk Rhythm & Life || [[Eldorado, Victoria|Eldorado]] || 1996 
|||
|-
|[[Freeplay Independent Games Festival]]
|[[Melbourne]]
|2004
|May
|Australia's longest-running and largest independent games festival.
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Gala Day]] ||[[Geelong]]||1916
||| Festival held annually in November. ([http://www.galaday.com.au/ Website])
|-
|Geelong Highland Gathering
|[[Geelong]]
|1857 
|March 
|Annual Festival held in Geelong. The original Highland Gathering was held on New Years Day and was organised and promoted by the local "Commun Na Feinne" Society formed in 1856.
Clans known to attend include attend Boyd, Buchanan, Donald, Donnachaidh (Robertson), Edmonstone, Fraser, Grant, MacLeod, MacDonald, MacKenzie, McLaughlin, MacLean, MacPherson, Thomas, Sinclair, Scottish Gaelic, VSU.

[http://www.geelonghighlandgathering.org.au/index.php/history Geelong Highland Gathering Association Website]
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Globe to Globe World Music Festival ||[[Clayton South, Victoria|Clayton South]]||2001
||| Festival held annually around Australia Day. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20170312230403/http://www.kingston.vic.gov.au/Community/Council-Festivals-Events/Globe-to-Globe-World-Music-Festival Website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Good Beer Week]]|| [[Melbourne]] ||2011
||| runs from 18 to 26 May<ref name="goodbeerweek">{{cite web|url=http://www.goodbeerweek.com.au/|title=Good Beer Week 2016|publisher=goodbeerweek.com.au|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Grampians Grape Escape]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grampiansgrapeescape.com.au/ |title=Grampians Grape Escape |publisher=Grampians Grape Escape |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>  || [[Halls Gap]] ||1991
||| Food, wine, music festival in the Grampians National Park. Held annually, first weekend of May.
|-
|The Grass Is Greener
|[[Cairns]]
|
|
|
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Great Australian Beer Festival]]|| [[Geelong]] ||2013
||| a Beer Festival Held annually, early February.
|-
|Guildford Banjo Jamboree
|Guildford
|2004
|September
|Annual music festival – performances, workshops ([http://banjojamboree.org/# Website])
|-
|Healesville Music Festival
|Healesville
|2010
|November
|Annual music festival with performances, workshops in a variety of venues ([https://www.healesvillemusicfestival.com.au/ Website])
|-
|[[Let Them Eat Cake NYD]]
|Werribee Mansion
|2011
|New Year's Day
|A NYD gathering for electronic music lovers featuring artisanal food, manicured gardens and art installations [https://letthemeatcakenyd.com.au/ (Website)]
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Maldon Easter Fair]]|| [[Maldon, Victoria|Maldon]] || 1878<ref>{{Cite news|title=Maldon Easter Fair|date=4 April 1878|work=Tarrangower Times}}</ref> 
||| Held annually over the Easter long weekend. Australia's oldest continuous Easter Fair.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Maldon Folk Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maldonfolkfestival.com/ |title=Folk Music Dance & Theatre, Maldon Victoria |publisher=Maldon Folk Festival |date=2 November 2009 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>  || [[Maldon, Victoria|Maldon]] ||1974
|||Held annually over the weekend before the Melbourne Cup.
|-
|[[Melbourne Art Fair]]
|[[Melbourne]]
|1988
|
|A biennial contemporary art fair. The first international art fair hosted in Australia. 
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Melbourne Flower and Garden Show || [[Melbourne]] ||
|||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne Fringe Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1983 
|||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne Food and Wine Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1993 
|||
|-
|[[Melbourne International Games Week]]
|[[Melbourne]]
|2015
|
|A week of events celebrating gaming culture in arts and education.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne International Singers Festival]]|| [[Melbourne]] || 2010 
||| Festival for choirs, singing groups and individual singers. Held over the Queen's Birthday Weekend in June. ([http://www.playitforward.org.au website])
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne Jazz Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1998 
||| Music festival – May
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 2005 
||| Music festival – May
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne International Arts Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1986 
|||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne International Comedy Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1987 
|||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne International Film Festival]] (MIFF) || [[Melbourne]] || 1951 
||| Film festival – October
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne Queer Film Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1991 
||| Film festival – March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne School Bands Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1989 
||| Music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne Ukulele Festival]] (MUF) || [[Northcote, Victoria|Northcote]] || 2010 
||| Music festival – March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne Underground Film Festival]] (MUFF) || [[Melbourne]] || 1996 
||| Film festival – August
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Melbourne Writers Festival]] || Melbourne || 1986 || August
|| ([https://mwf.com.au/ Website]) 
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Meredith Music Festival]] || [[Meredith, Victoria|Meredith]] || 1991 
||| Music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Midsumma Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1989 
||| Summer lesbian and gay festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Mildura Jazz Food and Wine Festival]]|| Mildura || 1979 
||| Traditional and contemporary jazz, food and wine
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Mildura Palimpsest Biennale]]|| Mildura ||
||| Contemporary site-specific visual arts festival 
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival]]|| Mildura || 1996 
||| A large regional arts festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Mildura Writers Festival]]|| Mildura || 1994 
||| Program of workshops, lectures and discussion forums 
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Moyneyana Festival || [[Port Fairy, Victoria|Port Fairy]] || 
||| Summer festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Moomba Festival|Moomba]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1955 
|||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Murray River International Music Festival]]|| Mildura || 2003 
||| Beautiful music in beautiful locations 
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Nati Frinj]] || [[Natimuk, Victoria|Natimuk]] ||2000 
||| Arts festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|National Celtic Festival || [[Portarlington, Victoria|Portarlington]] || 
||| Celtic festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Next Wave Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1985 
||| Arts festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Pako Festa]] || [[Geelong West, Victoria|Geelong West]] || 1983 
||| Cultural festival
|-
|[[Pitch Music & Arts Festival]]
|Moyston
|2017
|March
|Electronic music and arts festival [http://pitchfestival.com.au/ (Website)]
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Poppykettle Festival]]|| [[Geelong]] || 1981 
||| Arts festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Port Fairy Folk Festival]] || [[Port Fairy]] || 1977 
||| Folk, blues, roots, Celtic, world music festival. Labour Day weekend annually.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Port Fairy Spring Music Festival]] || [[Port Fairy]] || 1990 
||| Open-air free annual festival, classical as well as other genres of music
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Pyramid Rock Festival]] || [[Pyramid Rock]], [[Phillip Island (Victoria)|Phillip Island]] || 2004 
||| Music festival 30 December – 1 January (held annually)
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Queenscliff Music Festival]] || [[Queenscliff, Victoria|Queenscliff]] || 1997 
||| Music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Rainbow Serpent Festival]] || [[Beaufort, Victoria|Beaufort]]||1997 
||| Electronic music festival
|-
|Rheola Charity Carnival
|[[Rheola, Victoria|Rheola]]
|1871
|
|
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[St Jerome's Laneway Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 2004 
||| Music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[St Kilda Festival]] || [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]] || 1981 
||| Music festival – 2nd Sunday in February
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sex Camp]]|| [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] || 2012 
||| A weekend of workshops, discussion, food, film and performance
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sustainable Living Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 1998 
||| Sustainable living festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Stringybark Festival]]|| [[Melbourne]] || 1985 
||| Sustainability / environmental festival – 3rd weekend in October
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Sydney Road Street Party]]|| [[Brunswick, Victoria|Brunswick]] || 1989 
||| Cultural festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tarra Festival]]|| [[Yarram, Victoria|Yarram]] || 1972 
||| Easter festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Tesselaar Tulip Festival]] || [[Silvan, Victoria|Silvan]] || 1954 
|||Tulip festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Thai Culture and Food Festival]] || [[Melbourne]] || 2004 
|||Multicultural festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[The Big Freeze Winter Family Festival]]|| [[Cranbourne, Victoria|Cranbourne]] || 2016 
||| Encouraging families to stay active, creative and use their imaginations over winter
|-
|[http://thevillagecontinuum.com.au The Village Continuum Festival]
|Bolinda
|2014
|Melbourne Cup Weekend (Saturday to Monday)
|3 day, fully catered, camping festival.
Traditional crafts, nature skills & well-being tools.
|-
|[[Toast to the Coast]]
|Geelong
|2004
|3–4 November 2012
|
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Wandong Country Music Festival]] || [[Wandong, Victoria|Wandong]] || 1972 
||| Country music festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Weerama]]|| [[Werribee]] || 1978 
|||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Williamstown Literary Festival || [[Williamstown, Victoria|Williamstown]] || 2002 
||| Literary festival April/May annually
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Winchelsea Festival]]|| [[Winchelsea, Victoria]] || 2000 
||| Country festival, November annually
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Wine and Cheese Fest]]|| [[Williamstown, Victoria]] || 2014 
||| Wine and cheese festival, annually in October
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Woodend Winter Arts Festival]]|| [[Woodend, Victoria|Woodend]] || 2004 
||| Classical music and literature festival (Queen's Birthday Weekend)
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[YIRRAMBOI Festival]] || Melbourne || 2017
||| [[Indigenous Australian]] culture, biennially in May
|}

==Western Australia==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="width:25%;"|Festival!! style="width:30%;"|Location!! style="width:15%;"|Began / When!! style="width:25%;"|Notes
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Augusta River Festival || [[Augusta, Western Australia|Augusta]]|| || Music festival held in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Avon Valley Writers Festival || [[Toodyay, Western Australia|Toodyay]]|| || Writers festival held in September
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival || [[Geraldton, Western Australia|Geraldton]]|| || Writers festival held in September
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Boyup Brook Country Music Festival<ref name="countrymusicwa">{{cite web|url=http://www.countrymusicwa.com.au/index.html |title=Boyup Brook Country Music Festival |publisher=countrymusicwa.com.au |accessdate=13 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821202734/http://www.countrymusicwa.com.au/index.html |archive-date=21 August 2011 }}</ref> || [[Boyup Brook, Western Australia|Boyup Brook]] ||  || Country music, ute and truck muster, markets, bush poetry, art exhibitions, workshops, held in February
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Blues at Bridgetown Festival<ref>{{cite web|author=<!-- article-content --> <!-- /article-content --> |url=http://www.bluesatbridgetown.com/ |title=Blues at Bridgetown |publisher=Blues at Bridgetown |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Bridgetown, Western Australia|Bridgetown]] || 1993 || WA's longest running Blues & Roots Music Festival, held on the 2nd weekend of November each year.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Brave New Works Festival<ref>{{cite web|author=<!-- article-content --> <!-- /article-content --> |url=http://www.denmarkarts.com.au/ |title=Brave New Works in Denmark |publisher=Denmark Arts |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Denmark, Western Australia|Denmark]] || 1994 || Australia's only festival supporting new works. Trail new art on audiences, semi complete or finished works, all art forms presented. Held in March. 
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Broome Arts & Music Festival || [[Broome, Western Australia|Broome]] ||  ||  Music, arts and cultural festival held in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Channel 7 Mandurah Crab Fest presented by LiveLighter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mandurah.wa.gov.au/tourism/crabfest/ |title=Welcome Back |publisher=Mandurah.wa.gov.au |date=25 March 2010 |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090629113945/http://www.mandurah.wa.gov.au/tourism/crabfest/ |archive-date=29 June 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> || [[Mandurah]] || 1999 || Food and music festival held in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Corrugated Lines]]: A festival of words || [[Broome, Western Australia|Broome]]|| || Writers festival held in August
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Darlington Arts Festival]] || [[Darlington, Western Australia|Darlington]] || || Community festival held in November
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Denmark Festival of Voice || [[Denmark, Western Australia|Denmark]] || 2003 || Music festival held on the June long weekend. Began as a community festival celebrating choirs, now grown into a main stage for WA and interstate musicians, presented with Aboriginal Elders sharing culture, walking together side by side.
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Elmar's Food & Beer Festival]]|| [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || || beer festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Fairbridge Festival]] || [[Pinjarra]] ||  1992|| Folk, blues, roots, Celtic, acoustic, world music festival held in April
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[FeBREWary]]|| [[Perth]] || || beer festival in 1–28 February 2013
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Festival of Country Gardens || [[Balingup]] || || Flora festival held in May
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Festival of The Wind || [[Esperance, Western Australia|Esperance]] || || Food and music festival held in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|FotoFreo Festival<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fotofreo.com/ |title=Home |publisher=Fotofreo.com |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020206122539/http://www.fotofreo.com/ |archive-date=6 February 2002 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> || [[Fremantle]] || || International photography festival held biennially in April
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Fremantle Children's Fiesta || [[Fremantle]] ||   || An annual event celebrating children, and reflecting the diversity of the Fremantle community, held in Samson Park
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Fremantle Festival<ref name="fremantlefestivals">{{cite web|url=http://www.fremantlefestivals.com/main/html/ |title=Festival do Sucesso – aprenda como ganhar dinheiro online |publisher=fremantlefestivals.com |accessdate=13 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620154444/http://www.fremantlefestivals.com/main/html/ |archive-date=20 June 2010 }}</ref> || [[Fremantle]] ||1905 || Art and music festival held in November
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Fremantle Heritage Festival<ref name="fremantlefestivals"/> || [[Fremantle]] ||  || Art, music, cultural festival held in May
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Fremantle Street Arts Festival<ref name="fremantlefestivals"/> || [[Fremantle]] ||1997 || Arts festival held in April
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Fremantle Tomato Festival || [[Fremantle]] ||2004 || One-day tomato festival held in either February or March as part of the Fremantle Village Art Market
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Great Southern Taste Festival || [[Albany, Western Australia|Albany]] || || Food, wine, art and music festival held in February/March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|GWN Great Southern Multi-Cultural Festival || [[Albany, Western Australia|Albany]] || || Food and wine festival with street stalls held in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Jurien Bay Easter Festival || [[Jurien Bay]] ||  ||
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Kimberley Writers Festival || [[Kununurra, Western Australia|Kununurra]] ||2005 || Writers festival held in July
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Kings Park and Botanic Gardens Wildflower Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/events/wff.html?Menu=wff/|accessdate=6 January 2007|title=Kings Park and Botanic Gardens Wildflower Festival}}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> || [[Kings Park, Western Australia|Kings Park]]|| || Flora festival held in September
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Leederville Street Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.totaltravel.com.au/travel/wa/pertharea/perth/events/festivals/leederville-street/|title= Leederville Street Festival|website= Total Travel}}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || || Food and wine festival with street stalls held in November
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Mango Festival || [[Broome, Western Australia|Broome]] ||  ||  Food festival held in November
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival || [[Margaret River, Western Australia|Margaret River]]|| || Writers festival held in May
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Margaret River Wine Region Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrwinefest.org.au/home.php/ |title=Margaret River Wine Region Festival |accessdate=2008-09-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112145912/http://www.mrwinefest.org.au/home.php |archive-date=12 January 2007 }}</ref> || [[Margaret River]] || || Wine festival held in November
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Moondyne Festival<ref name="moondynefestival">{{cite web|url=http://www.moondynefestival.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110081348/http://moondynefestival.com/ |archive-date=10 November 2008 |url-status=dead |title=moondynefestival.com Coming soon... |accessdate=13 May 2016 }}</ref> || [[Toodyay, Western Australia|Toodyay]] || 1984 || Cultural festival celebrating the history of Toodyay, with markets and entertainment, first Sunday in May
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Mount Barker Wine Festival Weekend || [[Mount Barker, Western Australia|Mount Barker]] || || Wine festival held in January
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Mundaring Truffle Festival || [[Mundaring, Western Australia|Mundaring]] || 2007 || Food festival with a focus on [[Truffle|edible truffles]] and other local produce, held in July
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Nambung Country Music Muster]]|| [[Nambung]]|| || Country Music festival including Bush Poets held last weekend in October
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Nannup Music Festival]] || [[Nannup]]|| || Music festival held in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Narrogin Spring Festival<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.narroginspringfestival.org.au/ |title=Narrogin Spring Festival Home |publisher=Narroginspringfestival.org.au |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408161847/http://narroginspringfestival.org.au/ |archive-date=8 April 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> || [[Narrogin, Western Australia|Narrogin]] ||  || Open gardens, markets, music, food, street parade and other entertainment, held in October
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Ningaloo Whaleshark Festival || [[Exmouth, Western Australia|Exmouth]] || || Environmental, arts and ocean sport festival held in May
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Northam Motorcycle Festival || [[Northam, Western Australia|Northam]] || || Motorcycle festival held in October
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Northam International Festival || [[Northam, Western Australia|Northam]] || || Music, arts and cultural festival held in November
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival<ref name="overthefence">{{cite web|url=http://overthefence.com.au/|title= Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival|publisher=Over The Fence|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>|| [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || 1996 || Travelling independent Australian comedy film festival held from May until March the following year
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Pemberton Autumn Festival || [[Pemberton, Western Australia|Pemberton]]|| || Food & wine festival held on the first Saturday in May every year
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Perth Beer Festival]]|| [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || || beer festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Perth Fashion Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perthfashionfestival.com.au/ |title=Perth Fashion Festival 2012 |publisher=Perthfashionfestival.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || || Fashion festival held in September
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Perth Fringe Festival || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || January–February 2011 || Arts and cultural festival held in January/February
|-
|Perth Garden & Outdoor Living Festival<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dietsch |first=Jake |date=13 May 2023 |title=Perth Garden Festival in full bloom after 50 years |url=https://thewest.com.au/lifestyle/garden/seasoned-green-thumbs-pack-the-50th-perth-garden-outdoor-living-festival-c-10617464 |access-date=15 May 2023 |website=The West Australian |language=en}}</ref>
|[[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]]
|
|Gardening festival
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Perth International Arts Festival || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] ||1953 || Art, music, film, and theatre festival held in January and February
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Perth International Comedy Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perthcomedyfest.com.au/ |title=Perth International Comedy Festival - With over 40 events and 140 performances in 19 days |publisher=Perthcomedyfest.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] ||2012 || Curated comedy festival held in Mt Lawley over 19 days in May.
|- style="text-align:left;"
| [[Perth Medieval Fayre]]|| [[Supreme Court Gardens, Western Australia|Perth]]|| || Fayre held in the style of a renaissance fair, entertainment, Combat displays, Vendors and food and drink. wear medieval costume have fun. 3rd Saturday in March
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Red Earth Arts Festival || [[Karratha, Western Australia|Karratha]] ||2010 || Arts festival held in September
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Revelation – Perth International Film Festival]] || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] ||1997 || Film festival held in July
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[Rock-It|Rock It Festival]] || [[Joondalup]] || || Biennial Music festival held at the Arena Jondalup in March and December
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Rockingham Community Fair || [[Rockingham, Western Australia|Rockingham]] || || Family festival held in November
|- align=''left''
|[[Rollercoaster (Australian festival)|Rollercoaster]] || [[Mandurah]] || 2004 || Annual music festival held on the Mandurah foreshore in December
|- style="text-align:left;"
|Shinju Matsuri – Festival of the [[Pearl]] || [[Broome, Western Australia|Broome]] || 1972 ||  Music, arts and cultural festival held in September
|- style="text-align:left;"
|[[South West Craft Beer Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://swbeerfest.com.au/event-info|title=Event Info|publisher=South West Craft Beer Festival|accessdate=23 August 2019}}</ref> || [[Busselton]] ||  || beer festival in February
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|SPLIF Festival<ref name="splif">{{cite web|url=http://www.splif.com.au/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031014013159/http://splif.com.au/ |archive-date=14 October 2003 |url-status=dead |title= SPLIF Festival |accessdate=13 May 2016 }}</ref> || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] ||2001 || Independent short film festival for West Australian film makers held in January
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|Spring In The Valley Festival<ref name="swanvalley">{{cite web|url=http://www.swanvalley.com.au/events/sitsv.html/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217121323/http://www.swanvalley.com.au/events/sitsv.html |archive-date=17 December 2004 |url-status=dead |title=Swan Valley |accessdate=13 May 2016 }}</ref> || [[Swan Valley (Western Australia)|Swan Valley]] || || Wine and music festival held in October
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|[[Sprung in the Alley Craft Beer Festival]]|| [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || || beer festival
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|Staircase To The Moon Festival || [[Broome, Western Australia|Broome]] ||  ||  Heritage, and environmental festival held in March
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|Stuffit (festival)|Stuffit || [[Wanneroo]] ||  ||  Taxidermy festival held in March
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|The Sunshine Festival || [[Geraldton, Western Australia|Geraldton]] ||1959|| Community Festival held in October
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|UWA Annual Spring Feast || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] ||1999 || Night market international food festival held in October
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|Vintage Blues Festival || [[Albany, Western Australia|Albany]] || || Wine and music festival held in January at Wignalls Wines
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|[[WA Beer Week]]|| [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || || beer festival
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|WA Food and Wine Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wineandfood.com.au/ |title=Wine and Food Western Australia |publisher=Wineandfood.com.au |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || || Food and wine festival held in June
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|[[West Coast Blues & Roots Festival]] || [[Fremantle]] ||  || Sunset Events music festival held in February
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|Whale Song Augusta Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://margaretriverguide.com.au/events/whale-song-augusta-festival/ |title=Whale Song Augusta Festival |publisher=Margaretriverguide.com.au |date=10 February 2011 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> || [[Augusta, Western Australia|Augusta]] || 2010 || Music and entertainment, whale-watching, to celebrate the arrival of the [[southern right whale|southern right]] and [[humpback whale|humpback]] whales in the waters of Augusta during their annual migrations, first week of June
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|Wild West Comedy Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wildwestcomedy.com.au/ |title=Wild West Comedy Festival &#124; Perth, Comedy, International, Festival, Comedians, Funny, Humour, WWCF, Wild West Comedy, WA |publisher=Wildwestcomedy.com.au |date=10 October 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] || 2007 || Comedy Festival
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|Words in the Valley Writers & Readers Festival || [[Bridgetown, Western Australia|Bridgetown]]|| || Writers festival held in July
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|York Jazz Festival || [[York, Western Australia|York]] || || Jazz music festival held in September/October
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|Yum In My Tum – a food festival just for kids!<ref name="yuminmytumfoodfestival">{{cite web|url=http://www.yuminmytumfoodfestival.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910010427/http://www.yuminmytumfoodfestival.com/ |archive-date=10 September 2008 |url-status=dead |title= Yum In My Tum Food Festival |accessdate=13 May 2016 }}</ref> || Whiteman Park, Perth, Western Australia || || WA's only food festival dedicated to children, takes place annually on the last weekend in November
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==See also==
{{Portal|Australia}}
*[[List of festivals]]
*[[List of festivals in Brisbane]]
*[[List of Australian music festivals]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
* [http://marketsandstallholders.com/australian-festivals-fairs-fetes/ Australian Festivals Calendar] – A calendar of current Australian Festivals with dates and details.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014233/http://myfestivalsapp.com/ myFestivals App] – Calendar of Australian Festivals
* [http://our-festivals-australia.com Our Festivals Australia] – Australian Festival Listing

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