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November 5, 2026

Warrigal Goulburn wins big at the Lilac Festival – again!

Every year the city of Goulburn comes alive with purple, celebrating their annual Goulburn Lilac Festival.

Every year the city of Goulburn comes alive with purple, celebrating their annual Goulburn Lilac Festival, traditionally held over the October long weekend during ‘lilac time’. This multi-day event brings together the Goulburn community to promote the city’s beauty and civic spirit by painting the town purple.

 

Attendees are able to enjoy garden and art exhibitions, market stalls, the crowning of the ‘Lilac Queen’, and a vibrant street parade involving a procession of local floats, community groups, marching bands and performers – and this is where Warrigal Goulburn shines!

 

Our incredible team at our Warrigal Goulburn Residential Care Home and Warrigal Social make an outstanding effort into planning, crafting, and creating a beautiful display for the care home’s entrance, and our Warrigal buses for the festival’s street parade. Staff, residents and volunteers were involved in creating the decorations to celebrate this year’s combined theme, “Celebrating Our Story: 75 Years of Lilac Time” and the “75th Anniversary of Alice in Wonderland”.
Warrigal Goulburn display
We are thrilled to share that Warrigal Goulburn has taken home the festival’s Grand Prize for Business Display – for the third year in a row! This is a wonderful testament to the hard work of our team, and the outstanding effort they put into the display each year.

 

We recently visited the display and spoke to staff and residents about what the lilac display means to them. Watch the video below to hear what they had to say!
We thank our team at Warrigal Goulburn for going above and beyond to create such a wonderful display for residents and visitors to enjoy.


Explore the image gallery below to see more of the display!
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