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The White Hat Guide to the Moomba Festival
The Moomba Festival was first held in 1955 and has been a significant part of Melbourne life since then. Like most festivals, it has changed its nature over the years, but most festivals have featured a major parade, stalls and rides and culminated with fireworks. It is held on the Labour Day weekend each year. Labour Day grew out of the Eight Hours Day holiday but you will find little or no reference to that at Moomba. White Hat believes the naming of the festival to have resulted from a subtle Aboriginal joke on the whitefella organisers, but have never been able to completely verify this In recent years the Moomba Festival has been renamed the Moomba Waterfest but it now seems to have reverted to plain old Moomba It is claimed to be the largest free community festival in Australia. Through some clever planning it usually coincides with the start of the Formula I Grand Prix festivities, so those in Melbourne for the car race think the fireworks are for the visitors while the locals think they are for the locals. Full details at Moomba
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9th to 11th March 2013 ? |
Yarra River near Federation Square
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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