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The Informer: Festival hopes at Splendour in the Grass submerged as rain batters east coast

Jasper Lindell
Updated July 22 2022 - 5:12pm, first published 5:00pm
This music fan described the festival as "splendour in the swamps". Instagram/@ozy_azrael13
This music fan described the festival as "splendour in the swamps". Instagram/@ozy_azrael13

After a two-year hiatus forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the hopes and dreams of a gallant return at the Splendour in the Grass music festival appear to have sunk. Under water from heavy rain on the east coast.

Jasper Lindell

Jasper Lindell

Assembly Reporter

Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.