Homeless told to move on by council ahead of food and wine festival after being deemed 'safety risk'
Moreton Bay City Council has threatened to call the police on homeless people if they do not leave the foreshore to make way for a food and wine festival.
Bluesfest director Peter Noble talks to ABC News Breakfast
Bluesfest director Peter Noble explains why he has decided to cancel the festival after 2025.
Has Video Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds.Bluesfest demise 'like a loved one dying' as Byron Bay counts the cost of loss
After 35 years, one of Australia's most iconic music festivals will hold its "final curtain call". Musicians and community members are devastated by the news.
Some farmers diversify by planting new crops. This goat producer hosts a giant outback music festival
Belmont Station in Far West NSW is primarily focused on sheep and goat production most of the year, except for a week in August when it becomes home to the Mundi Mundi Bash.
Shane Howard performing at last year's Mundi Mundi Bash
Shane Howard (former of the Aussie band Goanna) perform their classic hit Solid Rock (Sacred Ground) at last year's Mundi Mundi Bash.
Has Video Duration: 58 seconds.Another music festival in dire straits, as upcoming Harvest Rock cancelled
South Australia's Harvest Rock is the latest music festival to find itself in limbo, with organisers cancelling the upcoming instalment which had been scheduled for October.
Photo shows Crowds watching a lit up stageIsland comes together to celebrate songlines, resilience and modern identity with three generations of musicians
For the first time, some elders on Palm Island have had the chance to perform songs to the community as part of a project involving three generations.
Photo shows A man and a woman stand on stage signing and playing instruments.Camel racing twins
Byron Bay twins Lauren and Lily Christian have white sandy beaches for dusty desert tracks to race camels.
Has Video Duration: 24 seconds.NT police commissioner 'deeply sorry' for years of injustice for Indigenous people — as it happened
Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has delivered an apology to the Indigenous community at the Garma Festival, acknowledging there have been times when NT Police did not protect Aboriginal people from harm. Look back on our blog of the day's events.
Photo shows A man stands next to a woman.Shire secures heavy metal and bush doof festivals on same weekend, despite live music industry woes
The South West Metal Fest and the Meliora Art and Lifestyle Festival will descend on one WA shire on the same weekend, but not everyone's happy about the noise.
Photo shows three men on stage, singing, playing guitar. Bright coloured banners with people in crowd.Pill testing to be available at Schoolies on the Gold Coast
A free, voluntary and confidential pill testing service will be available at schoolies celebrations at Surfers Paradise this year, but only if Labor retains government in October.
Photo shows Teenagers at Surfers Paradise at night in 2013.triple j hasn't visited Warrnambool in almost 30 years. But now, One Night Stand is coming
Music lovers will flock to Warrnambool for this year's One Night Stand concert in September. But the region's music history goes far deeper.
Photo shows composite image featuring shane howard, leah senior and didirriPub the hottest ticket in town after wild weather forces remote festival indoors
A celebration of First Nations music wasn't going to be stopped by 150-kilometres-per-hour winds as punters packed out the Ceduna Hotel to be inspired by big-name artists.
Photo shows woman smiles in the centre of a crowd in a pubEvery year, this small German town stages the most extravagant operas. This year, it’s going to be led by an Australian conductor
Trail-blazing conductor Simone Young is set to be the first Australian and first woman to conduct Wagner's epic 15-hour Ring Cycle at its home in Bayreuth, Germany.
Photo shows Simone Young conducts the Sydney Symphony string section, her left arm extended and her right holds the baton in front of her.'I was born 100 years too late': Col and her vintage wagon ride back in time for Cobb & Co mail delivery
The Queensland woman is training her horses to travel 76-kilometres through dust and dirt to retrace the path of Australia's last horse-drawn mail run.
Photo shows A woman in a blue top and white cap smiles next two her two white ponies harnessed to a yellow wagonVeteran performer quits Adelaide Fringe, saying it's now 'financially unviable' for independent artists
The Adelaide Fringe is booming, selling more than a million tickets two years in a row. But some performers are questioning whether the festival has become too big — leaving local shows lost in the crowd.
Photo shows Kate Lawrence stands next to a student at a circus training classThe peak of the pandemic has long since passed — but live music is still struggling to make itself heard
For decades, a mainstay of the live music scene was the adolescent "rite of passage" of going out to gigs, concerts and band nights in the back rooms of pubs — but Adelaide industry figures say factors including TikTok and the after-effects of the pandemic are continuing to keep young people away.
Photo shows A man leans an arm against a bar top, behind him bottles of alcohol and a neon bar signLike Burning Man but more remote, this is the desert festival Australians are spending big on
Many festivals are shutting down due to increasing costs, but despite fewer numbers this year organisers are confident this one will survive.
Photo shows Aerial view of Big Red Bash festival siteBig Red Bash festival kicks off as wet weather batters grounds
Unseasonal rain has turned Australia's most remote music festival, the Big Red Bash, into a mud bath.
Photo shows Soggy Festival, Show Goes On: Close up of people's feet tied up in plastic bags on a muddy ground.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds.Stage set for the 2024 Birdsville Big Red Bash
Thousands of people will attend the Birdsville Big Red Bash, billed as the world's most remote music festival.
Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds.Big Red Bash kicks off in Birdsville as sun rises over soggy festival grounds for the second year in a row
Unseasonal mid-winter rain makes for a muddy beginning to Australia's most remote music festival — but these punters wouldn't have it any other way.
Photo shows man and woman standing in the mud