#Regional Australia
Articles tagged #Regional Australia on Lifestyle Desires.
Snow at Mt Baw Baw, a month before the lifts spin
Seven centimetres at Mt Baw Baw and a low-pressure front to 400 metres in Victoria. A soft early-May snowfall isn't a forecast for the season ahead, but it is permission to start thinking like a snow person again.
Four hours to the lagoon: direct to Cocos, finally
On 1 May, QantasLink cut the Port Hedland stopover from its Friday flight to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The journey is now four hours, the lagoon is waiting, and the arithmetic of a long weekend has shifted. Cleo Tasman does the maths from a bar stool at the Cocos Club.
Six weeks after Narelle, a fare cheap enough to argue with
Western Australia is dropping Perth-Broome fares to $179, Perth-Exmouth to $199 and Perth-Kununurra to $259, all part of a $1.45m post-cyclone tourism support package. A Hobart-based slow-road columnist tries to work out whether the cheap ticket is the right call.
The Gold Coast Reinvents Itself — Again
From schoolies trip cliche to lifestyle-migration darling, the Gold Coast has been quietly reinventing what it means to live and visit there. Inside the cultural and economic shift behind Australia's most polarising holiday destination.