Blue Mountains 2019 Bushfire Catastrophe Archives

Governmental contempt for Popes Glen east of Blackheath

March 23, 2022

Popes Glen Bushland Reserve is located on the eastern bushland outskirts of the village of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, which is situated about 110km due west of Sydney’s CBD. This reserve re-opened in March 2022 after more than two years of being closed off to the travelling public by a New South Wales state government emergency decree. This governmental […]

Don’t waste time

March 31, 2020

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 […]