THE BEATING HEART OF AUSTRALIA
MULLEWA MUSTER & RODEO
Mullewa Recreation Grounds Mullewa, WA
Held on the weekend preceding WA Day (first Monday in June) Annually
Established 2012
If they can stay in the saddle for the full eight seconds, bronco riders are rescued from their bucking mounts by highly skilled sweepers. Rodeos are a staple of rural Australia’s community events calendars, running at least annually in most large country towns.
KINGAROY BACONFEST
Kingaroy, South Burnett, QLD
Late August, for three days Annually
Established 2018
This meat-lover’s foodie festival was founded in 2018 in Kingaroy, home to one of Australia’s biggest pork-processing plants – also one of the town’s biggest employers. Based at the Kingaroy Town Hall, BaconFest celebrates all things pork and the importance of buying Australian-produced pork.
IN ALMOST FOUR decades as a professional photographer and 20 years of working with Australian Geographic,
