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It is time to celebrate everything great about the Agnes Water and 1770 region while stretching the legs and improving your fitness.
The 1770 Festival is back for 2021, May 21 to 23, and features Australian music legend Troy Cassar-Daley.
The Festival will be held at the SES grounds on Captain Cook Drive, Seventeen Seventy.
The Fun Run will be held on Sunday, May 23, with runners and walkers of all ages and abilities invited to take part in either two kilometre and five kilometre courses.
This will be a COVID-safe event with physical distancing and other hygiene protocols in place.
Dressing up is encouraged with a range of prizes on offer for the best costumes in line with this year’s race theme – “The Spirit of 1770”.
Fabulous freebies: The 10 best free activities in Australia
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Wine tasting
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Adelle Neary is Australia’s next consul-general in Chengdu, and replaces
Christopher Lim. Neary is a career officer with DFAT, and has previously served overseas in Vientiane and Jakarta. In Canberra she has undertaken work associated with the MH17 flight disaster as well as contributing to the work of the Foreign Policy White Paper Taskforce. She has also served as an adviser, international division, within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Visitor economy expert panel
Former federal tourism minister
Martin Ferguson has been appointed to lead the new Reimagining the Visitor Economy Expert Panel over the next six months.