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David on June 26th, 2009

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 [...]

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David on June 20th, 2009

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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