13th January 2022 - Omicron impact sees call for screen production insurance to be matched for live music and events
12th January 2022 - South Australia’s Festival of Cycling cut back to one-day event
7th January 2022 - Organisers announce postponement of Tamworth Country Music Festival
7th January 2022 - Several COVID restrictions reinstated by NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet
29th December 2021 - Western Australian New Year’s Eve music festivals cancelled but Perth Cup horse race to proceed
29th December 2021 - New TTF survey shows Omicron impacting holiday plans for four out of five Australians
28th December 2021 - Future secured for Queensland’s Woodford Folk Festival
22nd December 2021 - Omicron variant sees Coronavirus again impacting live performance
17th December 2021 - New COVID outbreak sees cancellation of Newcastle’s Lunar Electric festival
15th December 2021 - Australian music fans reveal the artists they most want to see perform live in 2022
1st December 2021 - 30,000 free tickets for Sydney’s New Year live entertainment festival and drone show
30th November 2021 - Live music and entertainment industry urges Governments to deliver national insurance scheme as Omicron threatens recovery
15th November 2021 - Live Performance Australia calls for NSW Government to replicate Victoria’s backing for live entertainment
15th November 2021 - TEG delivers 360 immersive cinema experience to Sydney’s Entertainment Quarter
14th November 2021 - Victorian Government reveals event insurance scheme in move to revive live music
28th October 2021 - Sydney gym faces member backlash over vaccination stance
18th October 2021 - COVID impact sees Australian Government fund live music sector and leading arts organisations
15th October 2021 - Live music sector continues call for national event insurance scheme
8th July 2021 - VMA says Australia getting vaccinated is the key to live entertainment industry’s road to recovery
24th May 2021 - Live music venues in Sydney and NSW to receive government financial boost
4th May 2021 - Inconsistent capacity rules between entertainment and sport inflict further damage on live music
16th April 2021 - Powderfinger bandmates lead call condemning Queensland Government’s ‘double standard’ on venue capacities for sport and live music
22nd March 2021 - Australian Live Music Business Council calls on government to ease COVID restrictions on venues
16th November 2020 - Sydney Business Chamber highlights progress towards re-energising Sydney’s live music scene
5th November 2020 - Save Our Stages NSW calls on public to help save the state’s live music industry
26th October 2020 - Hillsong Church buys Melbourne’s historic Festival Hall
20th January 2014 - Teenagers hurt in ‘mosh pit’ incident at Christian festival
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