Dollymine brings a costume runway to Guardian Australia's news week
Narromine's fifth Dolly Parton festival drew a record crowd, including an impersonator recruited by friends from bingo.
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Dolly Parton festival in tiny Australian town dubbed 'Dollymine'
Guardian Australia had the largest weekly view gain among its nearby news-channel peers, with about 1.8 million views. Its busiest new upload concerned Labor's political prospects, but the video drawing the most views per day right now has a rather different cast: Dolly Parton impersonators.
"Dolly Parton festival in tiny Australian town dubbed 'Dollymine'" visits Narromine, an agricultural town northwest of Sydney, for its fifth annual celebration. Extravagant costumes filled the runway, and a record 1,600 people attended, nearly half the town's population. Jerome recalled being recruited by women from bingo, who offered not just an invitation but a plan to dress him up. Another attendee, Arcadia, traveled from Brisbane and spoke about discovering more of Parton's career and generosity.
That festival report was one of fifteen uploads. The week's most watched, "Back to Back Barries: How Labor should fight One Nation," brought Tony Barry and former senior Labor advisor Jessie McCrone together to discuss a Redbridge poll, Anthony Albanese's options and the Victorian election. A separate campaign-launch excerpt is also among the channel's fastest-moving videos.
Subscribers increased modestly over the week, although today's channel views are well below the usual daily level. Nearby, The Canadian Press and Guardian Sport also added subscribers and each gained more than a million weekly views. For Guardian Australia, the freshest draw is Narromine's transformation into a town with a very specific dress code.
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- Channel
- Guardian Australia
- Subscribers
- 158,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,776,748
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 26,379
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Here is Guardian Australia's week in views, subscribers and uploads.
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