Talk:Henley-on-Todd Regatta

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Why would someone want to delete this? It is the main attraction of this godforsaken spot! i dream of running the canoe race.
 * For the confused, the date "010106" above apparently stands for 1st January 2006, but whether the assumed format was ‹mmddyy› or ‹ddmmyy› is impossible to ascertain. So please use more self-explanatory dates on talk pages, since not everybody uses the format you're most familiar with!  yoyo (talk) 16:47, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

A categorical mystery
Under which category should this appear: or the (presently non-existent)
 * Category:Spring (season) events in Australia
 * Category:Dry season events in Australia?

This question may seem facetious, but does have a serious intent. Many parts of tropical Australia have only two recognised seasons annually, "the wet" and "the dry", owing to rain occurring almost exclusively during the monsoons. And traditional land-owners around Australia recognise, not the European four seasons, but a number varying from two to six or even more, depending upon the seasonal availability of various foods important to their lives. For example, Aboriginals of the Burarra people, of North Central Arnhem Land, have "four seasons, Lugurrma, Barra, Wilma and Jilicha which are related to the winds that blow at different times of the year". At the other end of the country, Aboriginals of the Port Phillip region in the State of Victoria – from the Wurundjeri, Wathaurong, and Bunurong tribes of the Kulin nation – traditionally observe a cycle of six seasons in the year.

Still, I have no idea how many (or how few) Australian events are readily categorisable as belonging to any season not named according to the European model. If too few, of course, such categories would be mostly useless. Nor do I know what reliable sources exist that document indigenous Australian events that occurred in the seasons they recognise(d). It's interesting that the article The lost seasons begins with the quote: "Hundreds of years ago, the seasons in Australia were marked by local events like sharks breeding and wattle flowering" (my emphasis). However, the sense of "event" that WP is including in the various "seasonal" categories seems to be totally unrelated to these natural cyclical changes of weather and resource supply. Rather, it's to more or less commercial activities whose occurrence is quite rigidly fixed to dates on a more mechanistic calendar.

I would appreciate your input. yoyo (talk) 02:47, 2 January 2018 (UTC)


 * For more information, see Indigenous Australian seasons. yoyo (talk) 02:29, 5 January 2018 (UTC)