ISPT Katoomba Village: greedy landlord rent-hikes force retailers broke and to walk away

Coles ‘Katoomba Village’ is a corporate-owned shopping plaza development in Katoomba situated in Parke Street which opened in 2012. Before and during the 2020-22 pandemic, four of its retail plaza retail tenants were driven to the wall – locked out, forced to walk away from their businesses and livelihoods due to the greedy Sydney based multi-billion corporate landlord. These long […]

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Echo Point mass tourism concrete amphitheatre

Echo Point Lookout to the Three Sisters pagodas in the Blue Mountains just keeps attracting massive government funding for expansion to attract more crowds.  A whopping $22 million has been poured to this lookout by government since 2003 seemingly fixated on the premise that mass tourism visitation must translate to greater prosperity for local tourism. No, the reality of mass […]

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Government tokenistic ‘recovery’ forum pacifies suffering tourism in the wake of another bushfire mishandling

Here we go again… Bushfires lockdown the entire Blue Mountains The widespread bushfire ‘mega-blaze‘ disaster of Christmas 2019 that was mishandled and allowed to rage and spread over two months, ended up destroying 80 percent of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area as well as many other natural regions of New South Wales. Dubbed by our sister conservation entity […]

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