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Good Vibrations

13 Feb 2010 (annual)

The Good Vibrations festival aims to get back to basics in natural amphitheatres. The Sydney event takes place this summer in Centennial Park. The 2010 line-up stars the likes of Basement…

Good Vibrations music festival, Australia. Photo by Anthony Ponzo, courtesy of GVF Ferris Davies PRM
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Chinese New Year in Melbourne

14 Feb 2010 (annual)

Eighty people carry the 92-metre Dai Loong (Great Dragon) through Melbourne's Chinatown to celebrate the Chinese New Year - and it's considered lucky to touch it. All locals join in with the…

Chinese lantern. Photo by Heather Sills, © Whatsonwhen
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Good Vibrations

14 Feb 2010 (annual)

The Good Vibrations festival aims to get back to basics in natural amphitheatres. The Perth leg of the tour visits the Claremont Showground. The 2010 line-up stars the likes of Basement Jaxx…

Good Vibrations music festival, Australia. Photo by Anthony Ponzo, courtesy of GVF Ferris Davies PRM
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Sydney Shakespeare Festival

7 Jan - 14 Feb 2010; Thu, Fri, Sat, and Sun only (annual)

For a refined summer evening in Sydney, take a picnic to Bicentennial Park on the Glebe Foreshore and catch an outdoor theatre performance at the Sydney Shakespeare Festival. This popular…

The cast of <i>Much Ado About Nothing</i> at the 2008 Sydney Shakespeare Festival, Glebe. Courtesy of Sydney Shakespeare Festival
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Gilbert & George

14 Feb 2010

Besuited British giants of contemporary art, Gilbert & George return to Australia by invitation for the end of Art Gallery of NSW's 40 years: Kaldor Public Art Projects exhibition. They will…

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Hobart Challenge

13 - 14 Feb 2010 (annual)

Triathlon Australia presents the Challenge Series, a sequence of multisport events that takes place across the country between January and March. The Hobart Challenge at the city's Waterman's…

Adelaide Challenge, South Australia. Courtesy of Triathlon Australia
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Flickerfest International Short Film Festival

17 - 18 Feb 2010 (annual)

Australia's premier short film festival, Flickerfest tours the country after opening at Sydney's Bondi Beach Pavilion. Here it makes a two-day stop at Kempsey's Bandbox Cinema in New South Wales.

A Flickerfest screening. Courtesy of the Lantern Group Flickerfest. Courtesy of the Lantern Group
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Good Vibrations

20 Feb 2010 (annual)

The Good Vibrations festival aims to get back to basics in natural amphitheatres. The Gold Coast leg of the tour visits Southport's Parklands Showgrounds. The 2010 line-up stars Basement Jaxx…

Good Vibrations music festival, Australia. Photo by Anthony Ponzo, courtesy of GVF Ferris Davies PRM
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St George OpenAir Cinema

12 Jan - 20 Feb 2010 (annual)

Catch current film releases at Sydney's St George OpenAir Cinema during the height of summer. Located on the edge of the Royal Botanic Gardens, the sunset views across the harbour are just as…

St George OpenAir Cinema at Mrs Macquaries Point, Sydney. Courtesy of St George OpenAir Cinema
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Concerts in the Caves

20 Feb 2010; Sat only (various dates)

New South Wales' spectacular Jenolan Caves host monthly classical music recitals in their Cathedral Chamber. Concerts in the Caves take place on the third and fourth Saturdays. The Chamber is…

Georg Mertens performs in New South Wales' famous Jenolan Caves. Photo by Rob Whyte, courtesy of Georg Mertens
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Perth City Muster

19 - 20 Feb 2010 (annual)

This touring City Muster festival unites country and western fans from across Australia in Perth for a two-day jamboree of concerts and ute shows. The next Perth City Muster takes place in…

Australia's beloved Lee Kernaghan performing at Perth City Muster, Courtesy of City Muster Perth City Muster
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Boyup Brook Ute and Truck Muster

20 Feb 2010 (annual)

The Boyup Brook Ute and Truck Muster is held in conjunction with the area's well-established Country Music Festival. The utes and trucks arrive in town on the Saturday and parade through the…

One of the utes at Boyup Brook's 2007 Utes and Truck Muster. Courtesy of Boyup Brook Ute and Truck Muster.
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Tropfest Film Festival

21 Feb 2010 (annual)

The daydreaming of an out-of-work filmmaker resulted in the world's most popular short film festival. For one day only, the Tropfest Film Festival at The Domain in Sydney Botanical Gardens is…

Tropfest in Sydney's Domain with its high-rise screen. Courtesy of Tropfest Film Festival Sony Tropfest
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Good Vibrations

21 Feb 2010 (annual)

The Good Vibrations festival aims to get back to basics in natural amphitheatres. Melbourne's final leg of the tour visits The Nursery at Flemington Racecourse. The 2010 line-up stars Basement…

Good Vibrations music festival, Australia. Photo by Anthony Ponzo, courtesy of GVF Ferris Davies PRM
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Future Music Festival

27 Feb 2010

Award-winning Future Music Festival kicks off at Brisbane's Doomben Racecourse on its tour of Australian cities, playing to tens of thousands of music fans. Blending electronica with pop…

The Prodigy. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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150.023889
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Concerts in the Caves

27 Feb 2010; Sat only (various dates)

New South Wales' spectacular Jenolan Caves host monthly classical music recitals in their Cathedral Chamber. Concerts in the Caves take place on the third and fourth Saturdays. The Chamber is…

Georg Mertens performs in New South Wales' famous Jenolan Caves. Photo by Rob Whyte, courtesy of Georg Mertens
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144.595184
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The Age Harvest Picnic at Hanging Rock

28 Feb 2010 (annual)

All you need to take to The Age Harvest Picnic at Hanging Rock is a picnic blanket and a big appetite. Food and wine producers from across Victoria showcase their tasty wares for you to buy…

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Flickerfest International Short Film Festival

25 - 28 Feb 2010 (annual)

Australia's premier short film festival, Flickerfest International Short Film Festival tours the country after opening at Sydney's Bondi Beach Pavilion. Here it arrives for a four-day sojourn…

A Flickerfest screening. Courtesy of the Lantern Group Flickerfest. Courtesy of the Lantern Group
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Chinese New Year in Sydney

12 - 28 Feb 2010 (annual)

The Chinese New Year celebrations in Sydney feature a magical twilight parade, traditional dragon boat races and oriental markets. Dixon Street, in the middle of Chinatown, has an array of…

Dragon dances bring good fortune to the Dragon Boat Races as part of Sydney's Chinese New Year celebrations. Courtesy of City of Sydney
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Future Music Festival

28 Feb 2010

Award-winning Future Music Festival return's to Perth's Ascot Racecourse on its tour of Australian cities, playing to tens of thousands of music fans. Blending electronica with pop, hip-hop…

The Prodigy. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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World Superbike Championship: Australian Leg

26 - 28 Feb 2010 (annual)

The World Superbike Championship comes to the Phillip Island Circuit in Victoria for the Australian leg. The three-day biking spectacular ends on the Sunday with the second round of both the…

Australia's Troy Corser testing the new BMW S1000RR he will campaign in 2009. Courtesy of the World Superbike Championship
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Franz Ferdinand

3 Mar 2010

Scottish Indie supergroup Franz Ferdinand take a break from the Future Music Festival tour to play one night at Melbourne's Forum Theatre. They are supported by Brisbane rockers Yves Klein…

Franz Ferdinand. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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The Prodigy

3 Mar 2010

Electronic giants The Prodigy take a break from the Future Music Festival tour to play one night of their Invaders Must Die tour at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. They are supported by the…

The Prodigy. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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Franz Ferdinand

4 Mar 2010

Scottish Indie supergroup Franz Ferdinand take a break from the Future Music Festival tour to play one night at Sydney's Big Top, Luna Park. They are supported by Brisbane rockers Yves Klein…

Franz Ferdinand. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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The Prodigy

4 Mar 2010

Electronic giants The Prodigy take a break from the Future Music Festival tour to play one night on their Invaders Must Die tour at Melbourne's Hisense Arena. They are supported by the UK's…

The Prodigy. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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Sydney New Mardi Gras

21 Feb - 6 Mar 2010 (annual)

Sydney Mardi Gras is world-famous for its bonanza of parties, exhibitions, music, plays, art and literature, all expressing what it means to be gay in modern society. From 2010 Mardi Gras…

Indian boys at Sydney's New Mardi Gras Parade. Courtesy of New Mardi Gras photo courtesy New Mardi Gras
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Perth International Arts Festival

12 Feb - 6 Mar 2010 (annual)

Founded in 1953 by the University of West Australia, Perth's International Arts Festival is the country's oldest and largest multi-arts festival, far outreaching the city boundary that gives…

Circus Oz, one of the headliners for the 2007 Perth International Arts Festival Ponch Hawkes, courtesy of UWA Perth International Arts Festival
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Future Music Festival

6 Mar 2010

Award-winning Future Music Festival returns to Sydney's Royal Randwick Racecourse on its tour of cities around Australia, playing to tens of thousands of music fans. Blending electronica with…

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Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival

12 Feb - 6 Mar 2010 (annual)

The Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival - promoted by Queer Screen - is held in cinemas across Sydney every February/March as part of the city's month-long Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Arts Festival.…

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Flickerfest International Short Film Festival

4 - 7 Mar 2010 (annual)

Australia's premier short film festival, Flickerfest International Short Film Festival tours the country after opening at Sydney's Bondi Beach Pavilion. Here it arrives at Perth's Camelot…

A Flickerfest screening. Courtesy of the Lantern Group Flickerfest. Courtesy of the Lantern Group
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Shakespeare by the Sea

15 Jan - 7 Mar 2010; Fri, Sat, and Sun only (annual)

Since 1987, David MacSwan's Shakespeare by the Sea festival has brought the Bard to the Band Rotunda on Sydney's chic Balmoral Beach. From January through to March, the company presents two…

Shakespeare by the Sea performance at Balmoral Beach, Sydney. Courtesy of Shakespeare by the Sea.
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Sydney Challenge

7 Mar 2010 (annual)

Triathlon Australia presents the Challenge Series, a sequence of multisport events that takes place across the country between January and March. The Sydney Challenge in the suburb of Cronulla…

Adelaide Challenge, South Australia. Courtesy of Triathlon Australia
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Future Music Festival

7 Mar 2010

Award-winning Future Music Festival return's to Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse on its tour of Australian cities, playing to tens of thousands of music fans. Blending electronica with pop…

The Prodigy. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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Queensland State Surf Life Saving Championships

5 - 7 Mar 2010 (annual)

The Queensland State Surf Life Saving Championships attract more than 3000 competitors. Three days of non-stop action - this year at Kurrawa on the Gold Coast - feature heroic exploits by day…

Surf Life Saving Championships, Queensland, Australia. Courtesy of North Burleigh SLSC
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ANZ Ladies Masters

4 - 7 Mar 2010 (annual)

The ANZ Ladies Masters golf tournament is held at the Royal Pines Resort on the stunning Gold Coast and attracts 150 of the best LPGA golfers annually. This is the southern hemisphere's…

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WOMADelaide

5 - 8 Mar 2010 (annual)

WOMADelaide welcomes the world of music, art and dance to Adelaide Botanic Garden for an extended four-day, child-friendly celebration of multicultural artistic endeavour. Respected artists…

Crowds at WOMADelaide. Courtesy of WOMADelaide photo, courtesy WOMADelaide
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Melbourne Moomba Waterfest

5 - 8 Mar 2010 (annual)

Melbourne Moomba Waterfest brings a riot of aquatic fun to the city's waterfront parks. First held in 1955, the event is Melbourne's premier family festival with water-skiing demonstrations, a…

Moomba Waterfest. Courtesy of City of Melbourne
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Future Music Festival

8 Mar 2010

Award-winning Future Music Festival return's to Adelaide on its tour of Australian cities, playing to tens of thousands of music fans. Blending electronica with pop, hip-hop and indie, the…

The Prodigy. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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Roxy Pro Australia

27 Feb - 10 Mar 2010 (annual)

With a total of US$100,000 at stake, the Roxy Pro Australia kicks off the women's ASP World Championship Tour, bringing top female surfers to Queensland's Gold Coast, centred on Snapper Rocks…

Sofia Mulanovich (Peru) winning the Roxy Pro at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia. ASP Robertson © Covered Images
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ASP World Tour - Quiksilver Pro Surfing

27 Feb - 10 Mar 2010 (annual)

The first event of the men's World Championship Tour 2010 sees surfing's big guns out at Snapper Rocks on Queensland's Gold Coast. The beach is named after the gnarly outcrop of old lava - the…

Kelly Slater leaves the water as the 2008 Quiksilver Pro Champion. ASP Kirstin © Covered Images
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The Prodigy

10 Mar 2010

Electronic giants The Prodigy take a break from the Future Music Festival tour to play one night on their Invaders Must Die tour at Newcastle's Entertainment Centre. They are supported by the…

The Prodigy. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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The Prodigy

11 Mar 2010

Electronic giants The Prodigy take a break from the Future Music Festival tour to play one night on their Invaders Must Die tour at Gold Coast Convention Centre. They are supported by the UK's…

The Prodigy. Courtesy of SJM Concerts
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Adelaide Festival of Arts

26 Feb - 14 Mar 2010 (biennial)

First held in 1960, the Adelaide Festival of the Arts takes place biennially and brings the very best of opera, dance, theatre and music to the capital of South Australia.

A view of Adelaide. Photo by Hamilton Lund. Courtesy of South Australian Tourism Commission
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Adelaide Fringe

19 Feb - 14 Mar 2010 (annual)

The Adelaide Fringe is a huge and vibrant arts festival, attracting the finest independent Australian and international artists. Even if you don't want to buy tickets or set foot inside…

100,000 spectators can't be wrong: crowds throng the opening of the Adelaide Fringe. Courtesy Adelaide Fringe photo, courtesy Adelaide Fringe
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Taste of Sydney

11 - 14 Mar 2010 (annual)

Bring a healthy appetite to Taste of Sydney, an epicurean extravaganza held in Centennial Park. The city's top restaurants serve sample-sized plates of their signature dishes, which visitors…

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Surfest

2 - 14 Mar 2010 (annual)

Originating in 1985, Newcastle's Surfest is Australia's biggest surfing competition. Taking place on Merewether Beach, it incorporates two events of the World Qualifying Series (Men's and…

Leigh Sedley, Australian surfer in action. Courtesy of Surfing Australia photo, courtesy Surfing Australia
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Barossa Under the Stars

Mar 2010 (annual)

Barossa Under the Stars brings international performers to the Barossa Valley for audiences to enjoy while tasting the local food and wine. In previous years, top headlining acts like Shirley…

Barossa Under the Stars' concert stage. Courtesy of Barossa Under the Stars photo courtesy Barossa Under the Stars
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Zoo Twilights

16 Jan - 14 Mar 2010; Weekends only (annual)

For once, the elephants aren't the only trumpeters in Melbourne Zoo. Every year, the animals' growls, gibbers and squawks give over to musical melodies during the Zoo Twilights summer concert…

Zoo Twilights at Melbourne Zoo. Courtesy of Melbourne Zoo
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Australian International Airshow

Mar 2010 (annual)

All heads tilt skywards as the world's most powerful jets thunder overhead at the Australian International Airshow. As well as flying acrobatics, there are exhibitions and static displays of…

The Australian International Airshow at Avalon Airport. Photo by Taro IMAHARA / T.I.P.P., courtesy of Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition
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Concerts in the Caves

20 Mar 2010; Sat only (various dates)

New South Wales' spectacular Jenolan Caves host monthly classical music recitals in their Cathedral Chamber. Concerts in the Caves take place on the third and fourth Saturdays. The Chamber is…

Georg Mertens performs in New South Wales' famous Jenolan Caves. Photo by Rob Whyte, courtesy of Georg Mertens
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