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.

Australian Outback Spectacular

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