Australia
I have never had much love for Jetstar at the best of times, and I will usually happily pay more to avoid flying with them. But when I was booking my flight from Sydney to Cairns a few months ago, the Jetstar flight worked out as the best deal. It wasn’t quite the cheapest, but [...]
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A few weeks ago, I was in Queensland, Australia. I had a spare day and picked up a leaflet for an Aboriginal guided tour in the rainforest. It sounded pretty good – promising plenty of explanation about traditional uses of flora and fauna, plus a cultural aspect. Demand for Aboriginal tourism It’s exactly the [...]
As was entirely predictable, the knives are already out for Ben Southall, winner of Tourism Queensland’s ingenious ‘Best Job In The World’ competition. The Sun and its Murdoch-owned Australian counterparts have already laid into the 34-year-old lamb to the slaughter. He’s been billed as a “whingeing pom” because he said he’ll miss the English summer [...]
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