Moomba Festival
Crowds down as heat prevents monarchs’ reign on Moomba parade
The parade was cancelled, but hardy types braved the Melbourne’s heat to enjoy the last day of the Moomba festival.
- Carolyn Webb
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Birdman from the underground takes to the skies at Moomba
Having fun and raising money for charity were the aims of entrants in a sweltering Moomba Birdman Rally.
- Carolyn Webb
How the Birdman Rally became a cult Melbourne event
The quirky Moomba event – in which amateur aviators fling themselves off a platform on the Yarra – boasts a venerable history of lunacy. But Melbourne wasn’t the first city to dive in.
- Tony Wright
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Festival chaos across Victoria amid extreme heat and bushfire warning
The Moomba parade has been cancelled due to forecast severe heat, as drama engulfs a camping arts festival in regional Victoria that is proceeding despite an extreme fire warning.
- Rachael Dexter and Max Walden
How to Moomba: Your guide to this year’s festival
As the curiously named Melbourne festival celebrates 70 years, we highlight its best and brightest events and performances in 2024.
- Kerrie O'Brien
Everything, Everywhere ... even Moomba: Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh’s Aussie connection
Michelle Yeoh’s best actress Oscar win has shed a light on her long-standing link to Australia, where she won a beauty pageant at Melbourne’s Moomba festival and got her start on screen, shooting a commercial with Jackie Chan.
- Karl Quinn
Melbourne’s Moomba draws crowds and cheers despite ‘daggy’ reputation
Multicultural Melbourne was on full display during the Moomba Festival parade, from the Vietnamese community, dancing in the traditional dress of ao dai and conical nón lá hats, to recently arrived Ukrainians.
- Cara Waters
Birdman Rally contestants taunt gravity and come off second best
Even Rachael Fleming, an actual pilot-in-training and whose family operates a flight school, plummeted nose-first into the river.
- Jackson Graham
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At 68, Moomba has a lewd message for detractors
Moomba has been called an anachronism, and the meaning of its name doesn’t mean what organisers imagined. But it has outlasted many other events, despite its daggy reputation.
- Tony Wright
- Editorial
- City life
Congratulations, Moomba, you’re still going strong
We love Moomba not because it embraces the modern world but because it resolutely does not.
- The Age's View
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