Travellercomplaining of the high cost of tourist facilities and services in Australia compared with most overseas destinations. The reason for the difference, is that Australian wages are among the highest in the world, so costs in Australia are much higher than in most popular overseas tourist destinations. These higher wages mean that Australians are able to afford all these foreign attractions. If wages in Australia were reduced, prices in Australia would drop, but so would our incomes and most would be unable to afford Australian or overseas tourist facilities.
Jeremy Grant, Somers, VIC
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When restrictions eased for Victorians last year we decided to visit Emerald Beach in NSW to inspect our rental property and have a well-earned holiday. We decided to take our caravan and relax in the Big4 Emerald Beach park. I rang to book a site, finding one powered site left. We were so lucky? The price was $150.70 per night minimum seven night stay. We could only stay fi
Island photographer’s beach image tops Canadian Geographic competition
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For Cumberland’s Sara Kempner, home is driftwood and rocks scattered along a Vancouver Island shoreline.
That happy place in Seal Bay, captured in a two-year-old self-portrait, earned Kempner first prize in a photography competition held by
Canadian Geographic magazine.
It asked contestants to submit an image that shows what home means to them.
“This is a self-portrait I took while visiting my parents at the property I grew up on, and it is an homage to my childhood,” Kempner said in her submission.
“We were fortunate to have the beach as our playground as kids and I truly believed that this place shaped me into the person I am today. Being creative and adventurous outside as a child translated into a lifelong love of the outdoors, which is now reflected in my overall lifestyle as well as my photography. I will be forever grateful for this beach and all it taught me.”
B.C. photographer captures top prize in Canadian Geographic competition
Cumberland, B.C., resident Sara Kempner took top honours in the prestigious competition, which asked photographers to submit a shot that captured the feeling of home.
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Posted: Jan 26, 2021 8:50 AM PT | Last Updated: January 26
This self-portrait of photographer Sara Kempner balancing on Seal Bay beach in Courtenay, B.C., received first prize from Canadian Geographic magazine in a competition that asked for images showcasing the meaning of home.(Sara Kempner)
Dark Emu in his introduction to his new book,
Loving Country – a guide to sacred Australia, co-authored with Vicky Shukuroglou, an extract of which appears below.
Perhaps 2021 can be the year then, to at least start to change that, as, in the face of closures and international border restrictions, we satiate the travel bug by exploring our own backyards more enthusiastically than ever before.
Everywhere we go, from Broome to Bass Strait, we can be mindful of the Aboriginal culture there, past, present and future. And we can make this an endeavour not of token deference, but of real personal enlightenment and even national conciliation.