Tourism

Get ready to dust off those long-forgotten treasures and clear out the clutter because the national Garage Sale Trail is returning to the Bundaberg Region in November. Bundaberg Regional Council is proud to be partnering with Garage Sale Trail  in 2023, the nationwide community-based initiative which encourages friends and families to embrace sustainability...

Tweed Shire Council is inviting businesses and commercial operators to share in the success of the popular Northern Rivers Rail Trail (Tweed section) and sign up to its new Connect Program ... the Connect Program is designed to connect commercial operators and businesses to the award-winning Rail Trail which opened in March.

The George Cartwright oval in Birchip was transformed into a mecca for vehicle lovers on Sunday, September 17, with 154 vehicles of all kinds, including cars, motorbikes and trucks competing in the fourth Buloke  Collectable Vehicle Club annual Show ‘N’ Shine.    

Post bushfire recovery, agriculture remains a priority for UMI and the Agricultural Recovery Working Group has now become focused on areas identified in the Upper Murray 2030 Vision Plan. Diversity enables resilience and the vulnerability of farmers relying solely on the stability of standard beef or milk prices is a catalyst for this group to investigate what options are worth exploring.

In a major boost for domestic tourism,  Bonza  has revealed Darwin and Alice Springs as the airline’s newest destinations. The airline will add 12 new flights per week to and from the NT with three new routes - Sunshine Coast to Darwin, Gold Coast to Darwin and Melbourne to Alice Springs.

An interesting way to spend a few hours is to visit the big white Historical Museum on the corner of Forde and Warwick Streets, Allora. This building was the old Shire Hall and has special displays and reading facilities.

Enjoy live music, food and drink and brightly lit displays of the tulips which offer a wonderfully different perspective to the day time tulip time garden display ... It’s a lovely community vibe which will also have a number of visitors to the Southern Highlands region due to the Festival being held over the long weekend.  

This is the 20th year that we have enjoyed seeing stunning tulips bloom in Bendigo! Our Parks staff have again created a beautiful display  that features an assortment of colours and sizes, with around 25 varieties on show.

Maldon Cycling Group has just published a book with information about 16 local bike rides ... Peter Strang, one of the team who produced the book said, “There are some great rides around Maldon.  Hopefully, this book will help some locals and visitors explore the area by bike”.  

Have you ever imagined carrying two big things in your pocket—a giant lobster and a fossil cave? Well, you can definitely do that now. Two of Southeast’s most iconic moneymakers—Kingston’s Larry the Lobster and Naracoorte’s Fossil Mammal Reserves—are officially in mint condition, having received a unique new honour last week.

A reader has questioned the appropriateness of the place name ‘Munyang’ in relation to the Snowy Mountains, as referenced on the new sign at Farrans Lookout on the Great River Road ... "My research goes back to notes I discovered in the Mitchell Library in Sydney written in 1838, a few years after Europeans first entered the district": John Murphy.

Serena Kirby. Private homes rented as holiday accommodation are not the cause of Denmark’s housing shortage. The finding was revealed in Denmark Futures’ research over the past 18 months and presented at a community forum last month.

In July 2022, The Big Banana received an email from the Royal Australian Mint about exploring the unique opportunity for The Big Banana to be featured on an Australian legal tender coin as part of a collection of ten coins celebrating iconic ‘big’ monuments across Australia. The collection was planned to be made available as part of a nationwide collectable coin program, providing the Australian public with access to these coins through their change.

Future Wallabies stars were on show at Yamba over the weekend as the Ngayundi Sports Complex hosted hundreds of children from across the state for the under 12 and 13, 2023 NSW Country Rugby Union Championships ... The Far North Coast under 13 side, coached by the Lower Clarence’s Dane Mitchell, impressed in every one of its four games, scoring more than 100 points while keeping their opposition score to zero.

New local laws to better regulate short stay rental accommodation in Bass Coast come into effect, supported by an online portal to streamline applications and approvals for property owners … to better manage short stay rental accommodation across the municipality, paving the way for a more structured, efficient system as visitor numbers surge.

Residents who successfully campaigned for heritage listing of King Neptune are calling for the spirit of Two Rocks and Atlantis to be retained … Two Rocks residents told Hannah Beazley, who is Parliamentary Secretary to Planning and Lands Minister John Carey, of their concerns the community could lose the public open space east of King Neptune if RAAFA WA is successful in having the public open space shifted.

Travel to Rottnest Island is free for kids aged 12 and under this weekend and island admission fees have also been waived as part of the Little Quokka's Big Birthday event. The annual event … celebrates the arrival of new quokka joeys with a program of free activities for the whole family…

Rural Road Safety Month urges all road users to fix the alarming issue of rural road crashes. September is Rural Road Safety Month and with over 90 per cent of camping trips regional, this is an important message.

Pam Jewson. Earlier this year, an estimated 1,000 people attended the Maldon Twilight Festival. On the back of the success … the intention is to make this a permanent two-day event on the Maldon calendar … To keep the event viable, we need to think smarter and make the load on the few easier.

The Narrandera Skywalk installation has been successfully completed and is already proving popular with locals and visitors keen to take a look. The design features a fully accessible walkway that extends 15 metres over and above the tranquil waters of Lake Talbot...

The globally unique extraordinary biodiversity of the Clarence Valley has been on show for 30 of the world’s top botanists who have sampled the region’s spectacular flora from the headwaters of the Clarence River to Yuraygir National Park. The botanists have descended on the region to attend the International Association for Vegetation Science 65th Annual Symposium...