Camooweal strokes up for Australia Day lawnmower racing

Derek Barry
Updated January 28 2019 - 4:39pm, first published 8:03am

If you came to the Queensland Outback and found inflatable sharks, noisy two-stroke engines, racing goldfish and smashed eggs on the ground you weren’t in a bad nightmare, you were at Camooweal’s famous Australia Day lawnmower racing.

Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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