It was under New South Wales (NSW) Treasurer Dominic Perrottet‘s reign (Jan-2017 to Oct 2021) that thousands were excessively fined for ridiculous COVID lockdown justifications, like sitting in a park away from others, wearing a face mask. Under the NSW Liberal Party’s Berejiklian Government’s Public Health Order Lockdown Regime [2020-2022], Treasurer Dominic Perrottet ruled both NSW Treasury and Revenue NSW […]
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Leura Village is a famous hub for visitors to the Blue Mountains to quality shop and dine and to enjoy the village’s relaxed country leafy charm. A vital asset is Leura Garage Café Restaurant Bar which for over a decade since first opening in 2011 has been one of the Blue Mountains most popular eateries. Yet, on January 25 in […]
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On 31st March 2020, NSW Government’s then Health Minister Brad Hazzard MP was New South Wales government’s ‘responsible’ Minister for Health, led by Liberal Party’s NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Yet, it was NSW Health Minister Hazzard who turned a blind eye to the known risk of the highly infectious China coronavirus contagion from 2700 arriving cruise ship passengers. They were […]
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Bushfire disaster destroying the Blue Mountains World heritage ecology by government neglect then decreeing a blanket shut down of all visitation was just the start from 10th November 2019. It was the worst carbon particulate pollution event in New South Wales history, perhaps for millennia. This was immediately followed the China coronavirus global pandemic and the abject failures of […]
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The village of Mt Victoria is struggling to survive post bushfires, floods and coronavirus pandemic and desperately needs new highway tourism signs to encourage people to stop and visit the village. Blue Mountains City Council Ward 1 Liberal Cr Kevin Schreiber expressed concerns for the village of Mt Victoria back in March at the council meeting. He understood only about […]
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For perhaps the past decade or so our family, friends and neighbours around Katoomba have specially selected to travel to dine at the rustic Ambermere Inn. This historic and restored colonial inn is situated at the highway hamlet of Little Hartley, which is just a 20km drive from Katoomba westward and descending 600 metres down the Pass of Victoria off the […]
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Following the predictable Christmas 2021 social gatherings and subsequent New Year’s Eve partying, the number of the China SARS Corona Virus 2019* cases in the Blue Mountains in early January 2022 has now snowballed to more than 600 cases, up from almost none in late 2019. Nationally, it’s worse. Why so? Government policy, and government has no solutions to support local tourism in […]
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Pre-pandemic, back on Saturday 26th November 2017, Nature Trail delivered one of its hiking tours around the bush tracks of Mount Victoria, having a great lunch for our group of seven at Petalura Eatery at 26 Station Street. We all happily sat around the table below. The gourmet pies in particular were a treat and we thank Paulina for her friendly […]
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The government pandemic lockdown has taken another tourist business victim in the Blue Mountains – Blue Mountains Explorer Bus. Managing director of the company which owns and operates domestic tour and coach company Fantastic Aussie Tours, Jason Cronshaw, said his fleet is not sustainable without international visitors. Yet international visitors have been banned by the Australian Government since March 2020, and […]
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As at 19th July 2021, tourism in the Blue Mountains is dead. Why? Because of the abject failure of the Australian Government’s quarantine policy and implementation to prevent the China virus pandemic entering our shores since December 2019. It had been detected as early as March 2019 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China. By September 2019 it […]
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Grand Canyon Walking Track forced to be taken one way by Parks Service
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Arguably, the Blue Mountains’ most iconic and accessible day hike through nature is the ‘Grand Canyon Walking Track’ is best hiked anti-clockwise
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The harbinger to a year of calamity started at 10.17pm on Wednesday 7th August 2019 when a 1.9 magnitude quake struck Katoomba. Many of the reports came from Katoomba and Leura but there were others from nearby Wentworth Falls and Hazelbrook. The tremor brought back local memories of previous quakes. The last one in the Blue Mountains Region was on […]
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Blue Mountains tourism particularly local tour operators such as myself have continued to suffer financial losses from the dearth of visitation since December 2019. Communities entrust government to respond to emergencies like bushfires; yet outside urban centres, World Heritage ecology and rural communities are treated like second class citizens. Government ‘she’ll be right’ bushfire policy of ‘Advice’, escalating invariably ‘Emergency […]
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