The Australian Flute Festival is a biennial international festival. The 2023 Festival is a special ALL-AUSTRALIAN festival.

Dr Sally Walker is Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University School of Music. Prior to this appointment, Sally was Lecturer in Flute at the University of Newcastle, where she was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been a masterclass guest at the Swedish and Australian Flute Festivals, has been a guest teacher at the Instituto Universitario Patagónico de Artes (Argentina), Anton Bruckner Privat Universität Linz (Austria), Royal Irish Academy of Music (Ireland), Kobe University (Japan), Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), Royal Academy of Music (Sweden) and the Australian National Academy of Music.

Her students have had orchestral, chamber music and competition achievements in Australia, Europe and the USA as well as a number following their own path as highly creative independent artists.