Moondyne Festival sees local scallywag run-free, again

By Sean Hefferon

ANOTHER Moondyne Festival saw the centrepiece of the show run free.

And not for the first time.

This in spite of the learned judge exclaiming on the stage outside Toodyay’s Victoria Hotel
that Joe is…
Guilty.
Guilty.
Guilty.

Cue the banging of the judge’s gavel and the jeers of the partisan (Joe) crowd.

Joe invariably escapes anyway.

So it came to pass that at the 2025

Moondyne Festival Joe did just that – absconded again.

Which is pretty well what happened with the real Joe back in the day.