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Cassandra Morgan

Tuning out: party ends for a third of music festivals

Splendour in the Grass was one of the bigger festivals cancelled so far this year. (Regi Varghese/AAP PHOTOS)

More than one-third of Australian music festivals are losing money as operational costs skyrocket, red tape becomes harder to wade through and people in their late teens and early 20s ditch events.

That's the finding from Creative Australia's first Soundcheck report, which revealed it cost an average $3.9 million to run a music festival.

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