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11 Feb 13 - 12 Feb 13 (Annual) |
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The Annual Hay Lions Football Club Fishing Competition commences on Saturday and closes with presentations of winners on Sunday. There are plenty of shady camping sites available and a free shuttle bus will be operating throughout 4 Mile on Friday and Saturday nights |
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07 Sep 12 - 08 Sep 12 (Annual) |
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The Hay Agricultural Show is held annually every September at the Hay Showgrounds.
Look through the Norm Smith Pavilion, where you will find local photography, cooking, art, craft, flower exhibitions and fleece displays from district properties. Walk down Side Show |
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26 Jan 11 - 26 Jan 11 () |
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| Hay will be celebrating Australia Day with a morning presentation of Australia Day awards, talk by the Australia Day Ambassador and breakfast at the Hay Gaol in Church Street. Then in the afternoon everyone can head to the John Houston Memorial Swimming Pool in Lachlan Street for a fun family afternoon that will involv |
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16 Oct 12 - 16 Oct 12 (Annual) |
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The Bishop’s Lodge Spring Market is one of the Riverina’s finest. Stroll through a vast array of stalls selling distinctive handmade items such as quality clothing and home wares, as well as the Lodge’s unique roses. Fine food and entertainment top off one of the mos |
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03 Sep 12 - 03 Sep 12 (Annual) |
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Dunera Day will commemorate the 71st anniversary of the Dunera Boys arrival in Hay, which was a major event for the town.
Learn about the arrival of the 48 train carriages holding 2,000 prisoners that arrived in Hay on the 7th September 1940. The prisoners were int |
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25 Apr 09 - 26 Apr 09 (Annual) |
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| Built on a sheep's back, this is a celebration of the contribution of the shearing industry to the Australian cultural identity and economy, including induction of shearing legends into the Australian Shearers' Hall of Fame.
Shearer's enjoy legendary status in Australia and links to Australia's vibrant shearing cultur |
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Hay , Murray Riverina |
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20 Dec 12 - 20 Dec 12 (Annual) |
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| Food and drink stalls, Childrens fun!
Super slide, rock climbing, face painting, laser tag, jumping castle, balloons, temporary tattoos.
Presentation of the Hay and district Essential Energy Christmas Lights Competiton.
Live music throughout the afternoon
Carols by candlelight from 7.30pm
Come dressed in your chr |
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Hay , Murray Riverina |
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05 Sep 09 - 05 Sep 09 (Once Only) |
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| ‘We were a miscellaneous lot: murderesses and pickpockets, abortionists and shop-lifters, thieves and robbers, drunks and vags’. So wrote Rebecca Ross in 1908, two years after her release from Sydney’s notorious Darlinghurst Gaol. Ross was one of a handful of prisoners and ex-prisoners who wrote of their experiences of |
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03 Mar 11 - 06 Mar 11 (Once Only) |
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| The Pie in the Sky - Festival of Football begins Thursday with a Footy Show type evening at the Hay Services club. On Friday there will be a Rugby League Super Clinic which will run at the Hay Park Oval from 10am to 2pm.Saturday is match day, Games will begin at 12pm. At 4pm it will be the major event the match Between |
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01 Mar 09 - 30 Nov 09 (Annual) |
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| Shear Strife is an imaginative and theatrical experience in the form of a sound & light show overviewing the industrial history of the shearing industry. |
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Hay , Murray Riverina |
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15 Oct 10 - 16 Oct 10 (Biennial) |
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| Shear Outback will play host to the 2010 National Shearing and Wool Handling Championships at the Hay Showground. Entries will be taken up to the 1 October for all open events. Also on the Friday night the Hay Services Club will be hosting a Speed Shear event with great prizes on offer. |
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27 Jun 09 - 28 Jun 09 (Annual) |
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| On the night of the 27 of June 1945, some Japanese Prisoners of War (POW's) planned to a breakout from Camp 7, north of West Hay. Because of the line of fire from the Light Machine Gun posts at various points, West Hay and Mungadale were evacuated and the town put on full alert. Most of the Japanese POW's had been tran |
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18 Dec 12 - 18 Dec 12 (Annual) |
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Come along and join in the Christmas atmosphere that is Carols by Candlelight in Hay. Get into the Christmas spirit and sing along with all the performers at the Hay Railway Station. Bring your blankets to sit on and your singing voices and enjoy the Christmas festiv |
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26 Jul 09 - 26 Jul 09 (Annual) |
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| The Hay Magpies Rugby League Club will be host to the Darlington Point Coleambally Roosters for the Country Energy Pie in the Sky Day. The Pie in the Sky is an event that has been held in Hay for the past few years and sees ex National Rugby League stars playing for the Hay Magpies Team. This year Simon Woolford and Sh |
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05 Sep 09 - 05 Sep 09 (Annual) |
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| On Saturday the 7 of September1940, four steam train loads of internees, in 48 carriages, arrived at the Hay Railway Station. They comprised mostly of Germans, Austrians, mostly Jewish and others who had fled from Nazi occupied Europe to England. They were interned at the outbreak of World War Two and transported to Au |
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19 Nov 12 - 19 Nov 12 (Annual) |
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The Hay Spring Racing Carnival takes place in November and the Hay Jockey Club Annual Races has grown in stature to be acknowledged as one of the "biggest days of the year in town".
Whilst the Hay races are a professional meeting, the day has very much a "Picnic Ra |
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08 Oct 12 - 08 Oct 12 (Annual) |
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Hay Rodeo and Gymkhana Club is one of the oldest rodeo clubs in the state. It hosts the annual Hay Rodeo every October, and the day always promises to be fun-filled, action packed and hosts some great rodeo action.
The Rodeo commences at midday. The program starts |
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23 May 09 - 23 May 09 (Annual) |
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| On 22 of May 1941 the first Italian Prisoners of War arrived in Hay from the North Africa campaigns. On the 9th-10th of July 1944 Italian Fascist Prisoners Of War in Camp 7 went on a rampage and two were murdered.
Learn more about the Italian POW's on Saturday the 23 of May at the Dunera Museum and Archive Room. |
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10 Dec 11 - 10 Dec 11 (Quarterly) |
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| Lions Club of Hay host a market day on the last Saturday morning of the month, every two to three months.
There are lots of stalls with plenty of bargains and is a great way to find a special treasure. There is always a barbecue running most of the morning, and you can come and stroll amongst the stalls whilst having |
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05 Nov 12 - 05 Nov 12 (Annual) |
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Oz Aliens Day remembers the Italian, Japanese and other "enemy aliens" arrested and interned in Hay between 1940 and 1945. On 2 November 1940 the Camp 6 opened with Italian civilian internees. On 25 December 1941, 18 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour (7 |
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