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Liz Hobday

Famed outback music festival cancelled after heavy rain

The 2026 edition of the Big Red Bash in Birdsville has been scrapped due to heavy rainfall. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Australia's most remote music festival, The Birdsville Big Red Bash, has been cancelled following extreme rainfall in the region.

The event on the edge of the Simpson Desert in western Queensland usually attracts a crowd of about 10,000 people and the 2026 event was 90 per cent sold out, according to organisers.

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