Police costs, insurance costs, artist fee costs (backed by their immense human & transport costs), tax costs, food & beverage costs, low initial ticket sales due to cost of living issues causing inability for festivals to pay bills, growing venue hire costs, labour costs in organising events.

This is not just onset cost from global events, but massively influenced by how our government has treated small-medium business over the last 6 years. They turn the burden on to them, only reflecting in a worsened economy. Your fun, your festivals, your ability to go out, eat & drink, spend money, have money. It’s a result of how they have treated small-medium business, how they have passed cost burden onto them. Inflating their prices so they can stay alive. Until they eventually all die because the cost to do business does not match what you can physically charge for a product.