Rainbow Region

Nimbin

Nimbin was a quiet dairy village until a ten-day festival in 1973 changed its course permanently — it's been known as a centre of Australian counterculture ever since.

About Nimbin

Nimbin recorded 1,607 residents at the 2021 Census. In May 1973 the Australian Union of Students brought the Aquarius Festival to town — ten days of music, art, and alternative-lifestyle culture, co-directed by Johnny Allen and Graeme Dunstan, often described as Australia's answer to Woodstock. Many festival-goers stayed on or returned, and the resulting wave of intentional communities and back-to-the-land settlement through the surrounding hills reshaped the district. Nimbin's HEMP Embassy and the annual Mardi Grass festival each May continue that thread as a hub for cannabis law reform activism.

Nimbin is Bundjalung Country, inland from Lismore in the Northern Rivers hinterland. For matters of language, cultural protocol, or country and family connections, local Bundjalung organisations and native title bodies are the right contact — not this website.

Email for Nimbin

A name@bundjalung.au address suits Nimbin residents, artists, and small businesses who want a stable contact point.

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A free static site

Local artists, makers, and small Nimbin businesses can get a simple static page live under name.bundjalung.au at no cost once identity checks are complete.

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Bundjalung artists, makers, and business owners in Nimbin: this page doesn't publish a directory of local people or businesses without their say-so. If you're a Bundjalung artist, maker, or business owner based in or around Nimbin and would like a page, portfolio link, or listing here — with a link back to your own site or socials — use the contact form below and mention Nimbin. Nothing about you goes on this page unless you ask for it.

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Use the form for email hosting, web hosting, corrections, or a new Bundjalung community page for Nimbin. Identity checks are used to reduce impersonation and protect the domain.

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