Complex sentence: The festival, usually held in late January, debuted on the 1992 Australia Day public holiday in Sydney, Australia, and expanded to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by the following year; the Gold Coast and Auckland were added to the schedule in 1994.
Split into simpler sentences: The festival, usually held in late January, debuted on the 1992 Australia Day public holiday in Sydney and expanded to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by the following year. The Gold Coast and Auckland were added to the schedule in 1994.