Mr Hauritz said the not-for-profit festival delivers a profit every year, but the cost of upgrading infrastructure such as roads , amenities and the sewerage system to keep up with growth far exceeds earnings.
Under the restructure, tickets will no longer be available at the gate and will be sold online to control the number of patrons attending the festival. Mr Hauritz said a cap of 22, will be introduced for New Years Eve, with festival organisers then "working backwards". It was really good and we felt it was comfortable enough," he said. Then we're going to count up at the end of November all the camping tickets that we've sold to see how much space and then allocate them accordingly each day.
Mr Hauritz said people could miss out under the new arrangements, particularly on New Years Eve. Along with the price hikes, patron's cars will be restricted and parking fees for campers and day-visitors will also apply.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. He said if the festival continued without the changes it would be unsustainable. Mr Hauritz said the price increases would be right across the board. Posted 19 May 19 May Fri 19 May at pm. Woodford, Queensland Despite dodging the brunt of the extreme weather, attendees at the 34th annual folk festival had the future on their minds.
Certainly Bob would have wanted the party to go on — and on it did. It was a week in which eastern Australia burned and less fortunate summer festivals were cancelled due to bushfire threat. Remarkably, this verdant slice of rural Queensland dodged the brunt of the extreme weather over the new year, enjoying cool nights and blue-sky days and even the occasional gentle shower. For the first time, campers could cool off in the new, on-site Lake Gkula, a 1. For the uninitiated, Woodford is a real-life choose-your-own-adventure story.
With some of his small team of paid staff having lost their jobs and others receiving the JobKeeper payment, Mr Hauritz said they had been reduced to "a smaller tribe".
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