List of Known Australian NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVALS :
Sadly, between Paul Lawler, Paul Stewart, and myself, this was all we could come up with ...ah, those lost neurons ...gee, but it was fun ...we think …

1st national February 1967 PORT PHILLIP (MELBOURNE), Vic

BRISBANE, Qld

4th national January 1970 PORT JACKSON (SYDNEY), NSW
5th national January 1971 ADELAIDE, Sth Aust

8th national 1974 BRISBANE, Qld

9th national 1975 SYDNEY, NSW

11th national 1977 ADELAIDE, Sth Aust

12th national 1978 FREMANTLE/Perth, West Aust
14th national Easter 1980 ALICE SPRINGS, Central Aust, NT (#1 outside of capital city)

15th national Easter 1981 BRISBANE, Qld

17th national Easter 1983 ADELAIDE, Sth Aust

19th national Easter 1985 PERTH, West Aust

21st national Easter 1987 ALICE SPRINGS, Central Aust, NT (#2 outside of capital city)

22nd national Easter 1988 SYDNEY, NSW

23rd national Easter 1989 MALENY, SE Qld (#3 outside of capital city)

24th national Easter 1990 KURANDA, FN Qld (#4 outside of capital city)

35th national Easter 2002 CANBERRA, ACT (probably permanent home)

I know it's been in Canberra, "our nation's glorious capital", for some years now, which has its good side and its bad ... (as a West Aussie, I know all about suffering the "tyranny of distance"!!!)
But I reckon Hrothgar will have the required answers though ...

Cheers! R-J