Parrtjima is an extraordinary FREE 10-night festival in the stunning Red Centre, with an incredible program featuring light installations, artworks, workshops, music and talks. Parrtjima 2025 will take place on Arrernte Country from 4-13 April.

Winton is turning 150 years and are having a celebration weekend.

Shitbox Rally is not a race, rather a challenge to achieve the unthinkable… To drive cars worth just $1,500 across Australia via some of its most formidable roads, all in the name of charity.

Experience the thrill of opera in the iconic Queensland Outback.

The Tatts Finke Desert Race is an off road, multi terrain two-day race for bikes, cars & buggies through desert country from Alice Springs to the small Aputula (Finke) community. The race is held each year on the King’s Birthday long weekend in June. “Finke” as it is commonly known, is one of the biggest annual sporting events in the Northern Territory and has the reputation of being one of the most difficult offroad courses in one of the most remote places in the world. Finke is unique and the most fun you can have with a helmet on!

The Alice Springs Beanie Festival is a community- based event that began in 1997 with a ‘beanie party’, organised by Adi Dunlop.

Australia's most unique and only Outback Film Festival. Celebrating Australian films under the stars in Winton.

The Winton Opal Festival, a prestigious event located in the heart of Queensland's opal mining region, takes place in the town of Winton. Organized biennially by the Queensland Boulder Opal Association (QBOA), the festival attracts both professional dealers and opal enthusiasts from the general public. It serves as a platform to showcase a variety of opal products, from raw natural stones to carefully polished gems and intricately crafted jewellery.

As the camels come hurtling down the track through the plume of red dust, you’ll have one of those ‘this is epic’ moments.

It’s an outback adventure, in the land of the legendary Min Min Light, sharing extraordinary events with a bunch of new friends.

Beyond the camel races you’ll find live entertainment, food, fireworks, children’s amusements and a host of novelty races.

Five days of quintessential outback fun will take over the Outback Queensland town of Winton from 23 – 27 September 2025, during the Queensland school holidays.