Tourism
September 7, 2005
Using the new website’s powerful search engine, holidaymakers planning a trip can browse by a number of key topics ranging from luxury spa cabins and wine tasting to heated pools and farm-stays. The ‘at a glance’ map of Australia clearly […]
September 7, 2005
This community campaign, the ‘longest running, most professional and successful heritage campaign in Australia” (Nigel Lewis, Architect and heritage consultant) was all about preserving the entire Abbotsford Convent precinct – a 5.6 hectare “intact 19th Century rural landscape” just four […]
September 7, 2005
TRAVEL CONCESSIONS are available to all under-graduate students in Victoria EXCEPT overseas students. “Discrimination!” says Marc Barry, Activities Coordinator for international students at RMIT English Worldwide, the university’s language education arm, in Melbourne. Marc both teaches English and coordinates student […]
September 7, 2005
Rural Law Online has no subscriptions or fees, is regularly updated, has specialist contributors and uses plain, practical language. Rural Law Online provides legal info; discussion forums; Find-a-Service; links to relevant sites; feature topics; a legal dictionary. The website topics […]
September 7, 2005
Victoria’s backpacker operators are focussing on increasing the length of stay after the Games. The website backpackvictoria.com will be the main call-to-action in summer and autumn 2006 and will be updated with all relevant info for backpacker travel. The marketing […]
September 7, 2005
Barb Bunnett from the Loch Sport Community House’s University of the Third Age (U3A)group has alerted us to this ’60+’ development in the travel industry. Apparently there is an increasing number of requests for longer ‘stay put’ style holidays where […]
September 7, 2005
Kirsti McQueen has recently been appointed as regional migration coordinator for Victoria’s Goulburn Murray region. She says a total of eleven regions will conduct business skills audits, surveying local businessowners to identify skills shortages that could be filled with migrant […]
August 25, 2005
A really good news story has been pased on by Orbost Neighbourhood House Coordinator, Mary McDonald – the story of the ‘Let’s GET Connected – Gippsland East Transport Project – a partnership between Wellington and East Gippsland Shires. The nine […]
August 25, 2005
Recent surveys in the coastal Victorian town of Inverloch show that the concerted January 2004 emergency response by the Department of Sustainability & Environment (DSE)and over 300 volunteers appears to have prevented a spread of the Northern Pacific Seastar – […]
August 25, 2005
Tourism operators, council officers and Baw Baw Tourism Board members met recently in Melbourne with Tourism Victoria officers. Bill Fox, Manager Regional Tourism, led the way. THREE KEY CHALLENGES:1) Identify key actions that will make a differencea. Have a realistic […]
August 24, 2005
Tasmanian Living Artists’ Week will be the island’s biggest visual arts event ever. From Friday 26 August to Sunday 4 September hundreds of Tassie artists will be involved in a program of:-workshops-exhibitions-artists’ talks-art trails-open studios-culinary events at award winning venues […]
August 24, 2005
‘Change the world for ten bucks’ is a book of 50 simple actions pretty well everyone can do – things that don’t require a mass of time, money or even conscience to achieve eg: Action 1: Learn the kiss of […]