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DISCOVER CENTRAL AUSTRALIA | OCTOBER 2026
HOT MONTHLY TIPS FROM OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT TOURISM CENTRAL AUSTRALIA October brings with it plenty of energy to Central Australia. From world-class Aboriginal art exhibitions and workshops to a...
DISCOVER CENTRAL AUSTRALIA | SEPTEMBER 2026
HOT MONTHLY TIPS FROM OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT TOURISM CENTRAL AUSTRALIA September is one of the best times to experience the Red Centre. Crisp mornings, warm sunny days and a...
DISCOVER CENTRAL AUSTRALIA | AUGUST 2026
HOT MONTHLY TIPS FROM OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT TOURISM CENTRAL AUSTRALIA AUGUST MEANS WINTER is slowly approaching its end, a season many locals consider the best time of year to...
CLASSICAL MUSIC, PALMERSTON STYLE
Forget the stuffy concert hall. Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) swaps the traditional setting for a basketball court, bringing two very different orchestral experiences to Palmerston for a weekend of music...
EDDIE TRAINWRECK & THE MONSTERS
Renowned local artist and mischief maker Rob Brown returns to present his latest solo exhibition, this time, inspired by the monsters that lurk under the bed – or more accurately...
ONCE UPON A NIGHTMARE
Forget happily ever after. Shake & Stir Theatre Co drags The Brothers Grimm out of the storybook and into the shadows with GRIMM – a dark, decadent reimagining of the...
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Australia’s premier theatre company presenting works of William Shakespeare – aka The Bard – returns to Northern Territory stages to present one of his most famous works, Macbeth. WORDS TIERNEY...
SEW GOOD
With the busy Top End festival season over, and the Wet season approaching, October might be a good time to learn something new. Cue Darwin AdultShort Courses! WORDS BROOKE GIBBS...
BUILT FOR STORIES
There are few places in Darwin where the past and present sit quite so visibly alongside one another, as they do at Brown’s Mart. WORDS BROOKE GIBBS STANDING ON LARRAKIA...
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
Keen to start your own biz? Or want to elevate your existing biz? With more than 140 events in Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs, October Business Month has you covered...
TURN UP THE BEAT
There’s nothing quite like the sound of hundreds of young voices filling a theatre. WORDS BROOKE GIBBS IMAGE JULIANNE OSBORNE FOR MORE THAN four decades, The BEAT Festival has been...
SOS FROM THE DEAD CENTRE
Our desert friends from The Black Wreath need your help. They’ve launched a campaign to save the venue, one that has seen musos from a wide range of genres perform...
HARMONY, MUSIC HEART AND HOME
Fresh from an extraordinary year that has seen them inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and mark their first-ever number one album, Where Do You Come From?, legendary sisters...
ART FOR CHANGE'S SAKE
There are few birds that divide public opinion quite like the Australian White Ibis. Once a wetland regular, now an urban scavenger with a taste for chips and a knack...
DESERT MOB
This September, the stunning Desert Mob program and prestigious Vincent Lingiari Art Award coincide. They’re bringing extraordinary presentations of desert art and culture to Araluen Arts Centre, Mparntwe/Alice Springs, and...
TURNING THE PAGE ON A NEW CHAPTER
The Northern Territory has never been short on stories. Territory writers have long captured the people, places and cultures that make the Top End and Central Australia unlike anywhere else...
LOCAL CATCH
It’s no secret we love our seafood up in these parts, so it’s only fitting we spend a whole month celebrating the people, places, and produce behind the Northern Territory’s...
A TASTE OF IRELAND
Forget the plane ticket – a little slice of the Emerald Isle is coming to town. WORDS BROOKE GIBBS DIRECT FROM OFF-BROADWAY and London’s West End, the internationally acclaimed A...
SOMEONE ELSE’S STORY
Communities are made up of vulnerable, unique and beautifully flawed people. And that’s a good thing, because it would be boring if we were all the same. WORDS BROOKE GIBBS...
NAZEEM HUSSAIN
Nazeem Hussain returns to Darwin with his new show I’d Like To Tell You About Some Jokes, the Top End an appropriate final stop on his mammoth Australian tour. Hussain...
