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There’s No Show on Earth like
Australian Outback Spectacular!
It’s more than a night out – it’s an experience steeped
in courage, tradition, a daring spirit and a unique,
laconic sense of humour.
Australian Outback Spectacular is the first show of
its kind in Australia – a unique and exciting evening
dinner show filled with outback music, drama and action
– a night you will never forget.
This unique attraction captures the grandeur of the
Australian outback, bringing it to life with spectacular
audio and visual effects.
The atmosphere is electric as every twist and turn
of the show features a cast of larger than life characters,
magnificent horses, stampeding cattle, camels and an
array of rough and ready bush vehicles – even a helicopter!
All of this is accompanied by a stirring musical score
composed especially for the show, as well as popular
country music composed and written by country music
legend Lee Kernaghan.
Australians are famous for their competitive spirit
and it’s impossible not to become involved in the story,
which revolves around the competition that develops
between stockmen and women from rival stations. Who
will you barrack for? The stockmen and women of Warrego
Station or Bunya Downs?
Australian Outback Spectacular is a high energy show
that demands every participant be well fed. And that
applies especially to the audience! So 40 stockmen and
women will serve up a gourmet Aussie feast with beer,
wine or soft drink to every member of the audience –
all in record time.
AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK SPECTACULAR
OPENS A NEW CHAPTER!
The Australian Outback Spectacular on the Gold Coast
will begin a new chapter when it opens an exciting new
dinner show Australian Outback Spectacular 2 ‘Heroes
of the Light Horse’.
Since opening its doors in April 2006, Australian Outback
Spectacular has entertained over a million people from
all over the world, with its celebration of Australian
stock men and women at work and play.
The new show ‘Heroes of the Light Horse’ will retain
all the fun, charm and skill of the original but with
an important difference, this time we celebrate the
link between our stockmen and the legendary Australian
Light Horse.
The new show has been directed by one of Australia’s
most celebrated film and television directors, Simon
Wincer, who is best known for movies, ‘The Man from
Snowy River’, ‘The Lighthorsemen’, ‘Phar Lap’ and ‘Free
Willy’.
In Heroes of the Light Horse, Wincer adds a new element
to the show by blending extracts from his movie with
the live light horse action in the foreground, further
enhancing the show and introducing high definition movie
vision to all scenes.
Experience a deeper journey to the heart and soul of
the Australian Outback. Australian Outback Spectacular
2 Heroes of the Light Horse’ is an unforgettable evening
and a holiday highlight which should not be missed.
Showing nightly from Tuesday to Sunday, entry includes
show, dinner, drinks during dinner and stockman’s hat.
ABOUT THE HEROES OF THE
LIGHT HORSE
We have our bush legends like the Man from Snowy River
and Clancy of the Overflow. But the men of the Australian
Light Horse Brigade in World War 1 were real. Their
legacy is profound and all Australians can be proud
to be just a small part of that legacy.
The Light Horsemen had an amazing affinity with their
horses. Some took their own, others broke in new mounts,
looking after them while travelling overseas and keeping
them all through the desert campaigns. They rode Australian
stock horses, a mixture of Thoroughbred, Arab, Timor
pony and wild Brumby. Known as Walers’, because the
first ones came from New South Wales . . . they had
a reputation for grit, sure-footedness and stamina.
The tradition of Light Horsemen wearing emu plumes
in their slouch hats, started with the Queensland Mounted
Infantry, back in the 1890s. Mounted troopers used to
test their skills by racing after wild emus. When they
caught one, still at a gallop, they’d pull out a couple
of the terrified bird’s chest feathers and proudly tuck
them into their hat-bands. Despite some objections from
Queensland Regiments, emu feathers caught on to become
the proud symbol of all Australian Light Horsemen.
Sometimes called ‘kangaroo feathers’, they were something
not to be insulted by anyone. The Light Horse were not
cavalry, but highly mobile, mounted infantry. In the
battle-fields of the Middle East their speed, toughness
and tenacity made them worthy allies and feared enemies.
The Light Horsemens’ finest hour came on October the
31st 1917 with one of the most audacious actions in
modern warfare . . . The charge at Beersheba. In a last
ditch effort to save the attacking British army from
disaster, they were to attempt the near impossible,
a cavalry charge across five kilometres of open desert,
against 4,400 entrenched infantry, supported by machine
guns and artillery. Surely a suicide mission.
Three lines of Light Horsemen a mile wide, thundered
across the dusty plain. Screaming like banshees and
brandishing bayonets that glinted in the dying sun,
they were terrifying, unstoppable. The Turkish lines
were breached and the day won. Amazingly, only 36 out
of those gallant, 800 Light Horsemen lost their lives
in that incredible charge.
Beersheba was the last successful cavalry charge in
history, yet it was made by men who were neither cavalry
nor professional soldiers. They were volunteers, mostly
from the outback and the bush, who had been formed only
three years earlier.
The Light Horse tradition proudly lives on in Royal
Australian Armoured Corps, Cavalry units, equipped not
with horses, but Light Armoured Vehicles.
The legendary men of the Light Horse inspire all of
us to this day. Their amazing exploits are a perfect
example of sacrifice and achievement. Their inspiration
lives on.
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Australian Outback
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Ph: +61 7 5591
6200
OR Bookings: 133 386
Mention Hello Gold
Coast when calling
Web: www.myfun.com.au |
It’s here!
One of Australia’s Greatest ever stories!
One of Australia’s most stirring and remarkable true
stories is reborn as Australian Outback Spectacular
celebrates the heroes of the legendary Australian Light
Horse. With an amazing cast of larger than life characters,
magnificent animals, stunning special effects and a
delicious three course dinner, it’s the Gold Coast and
Australia’s newest must see live show, proudly presented
by R.M. Williams.
For bookings go to MyFun.com.au
or call 133 FUN



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