10 Australian beaches that are brilliant without getting wet

Shipwreck of the Maheno on 75 Mile Beach, Fraser Island. Photo: Alamy For those who don’t like surfing, going to the beach isn’t quite the glorious experience of a summer’s day as it is for those who swim happily between the flags. But Australia has beaches where you don’t have to get in the... Read More

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Ploos – Sydney, New South Wales Nestled in a row of heritage-listed warehouses in Campbell’s Cove, and just three meters from the water, you’ll find Ploos. Chef and restaurateur Peter Conistis’ new venture, Ploos (which translates to ‘sails’ in Greek) is a take on South Aegean cuisine. Peter, who is the mastermind behind Alpha,... Read More

at least 45 Covid deaths recorded nationally; Qld says using ADF to evacuate aged care facilities is ‘a last resort’

Services on Sydney’s west-central light rail network will soon resume after cracks in trams forced their suspension, but the Opposition warns the ‘transport saga’ is not over, AAP reports . The line was closed in November after cracks were discovered in the wheel arches of 12 tram sets. New South Wales Minister of Transport,... Read More

The Bay Area suburb where property prices have soared 30%

“There’s this specter of buyers who say, ‘we can go further, I just have to go to the office three days a week’.” Loading She said price growth north of 20% was “astonishing”, but warned that at some point affordability constraints, an overall increase in inventory levels and interest rate hikes would mitigate. a... Read More

From 1 to 1,889,757 cases and rising: Australia’s two years with COVID on our shores

Two years ago today Australia joined the COVID club for the first time. We had heard of a strange new virus circulating in a Chinese city – little known outside the country at the time – for a few weeks as it escalated from a cluster of pneumonia-like illnesses to an epidemic. city-wide. Wuhan’s... Read More

Australia nears omicron peak as daily infections hover around record highs

Published: January 15, 2022 11:52:29 | Update: January 15, 2022 7:33:05 PM Australia has likely neared the peak of its omicron wave, authorities said on Saturday, but warned daily infections will persist at record highs for “the next few weeks” after more than 100,000 cases were reported for a fourth consecutive day, reports Reuters.... Read More

Full List of 2013 Golden Backpack Awards Winners and Nominees

The Golden Backpack Award ceremony, held last Friday, November 8, was the culmination of months of counting and organizing votes. During a nine-week online campaign, backpackers voted for their favorite hostel and tour/activity in every state and territory in Australia and across Tasman for the New Zealand awards. Nearly 94,000 votes were cast out... Read More

AFLW 2022: Adelaide Crows training match canceled after GWS Covid affair

The usual Christmas fanfare will remain for players preparing for an AFLW practice match in Adelaide but not the competition itself after a positive Covid case. Here is the last one. The AFL pulled the plug on a women’s training match in South Australia to avoid the risk of players and staff spending... Read More

Happy Hour! Seven pubs for sale this summer

The Imperial Hotel in Murwillumbah has been completely restored. Allison Worrall|Dec 17 2021 Facebook It’s been quite a year for those involved in beer and pub food. Hotels and bars are feverishly changing hands at a breakneck pace for prices that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. This week, news... Read More

Australia’s most amazing bars, restaurants and hotels unveiled at the 2021 Eat Drink Design Awards

Going out of the house for a drink, a meal, a coffee or a night out is not just getting away from home. As the last two years have strengthened, it is also a question of soaking up a magnificent setting. You can sip and snack anywhere, but when you do it in a... Read More

Barwon rushes to the tower of St Kilda Road

The St Kilda Road office contains 7,207 square meters over 12 floors. Barwon Investment Partners has acquired 607 St Kilda Road for its Healthcare Property Fund (HPF). The price – C $ 75 million – exceeds expectations by about 10%, valuing each square meter of building area at more than $ 10,100. It... Read More

Melbourne loosens more virus brakes

Posted: Nov. 18, 2021, 10:30 a.m. | Update: 18 November 2021 19:12:30 Melbourne pubs and cafes can have unlimited patrons from Thursday evening, while stadiums can return to full capacity as authorities lift nearly all remaining Covid-19 restrictions for residents vaccinated in the second plus large city in Australia, reports Reuters. Victoria, the... Read More

‘Life is getting back to normal’: More COVID-19 restrictions eased in Melbourne

Diners eat outside the Rococo restaurant in St Kilda on the second day of relaxed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) regulations, following a lockdown to curb an outbreak, in Melbourne, Australia, 23 October 2021. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders/File Photo Join now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register SYDNEY, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Pubs and cafes in Melbourne... Read More

The name of an Australian ‘slave owner’ removed from national park

A New South Wales The national park should be renamed following a request from indigenous communities. Ben Boyd National Park, on the state’s south coast, was named after a Scottish landowner who was involved in the historic practice of ‘blackbirds’, which involved coercing people – usually Pacific Islanders and Indigenous Australians – through... Read More

Tasman Holiday Parks Raises $ 300 Million to Boost Growth Through Acquisition

“We are looking for assets that present strong growth opportunities. We are really focused on acquiring assets where we can see that there is a strong opportunity to extract value over the next three to five years. She said plans to develop existing properties would generate an additional 500 sites and that the... Read More

Bolton Clarke Expands West – Australian Aging Agenda

Elderly care and retirement home provider Bolton Clarke Group has acquired its Western Australian counterpart Acacia Living Group. Acacia Living Group has three retirement homes, seven retirement villages, two respite centers and home care services in Perth and the Washington State area of ​​southwestern state in Geraldton. Acacia Living Group was previously known... Read More

NSW anti-vaccines to enjoy freedoms early as state seeks to match Victoria’s updated roadmap

Residents of NSW who have refused to receive a Covid vaccine should be given the same freedoms as their early-vaccinated counterparts, with the opening of the premises to the unvaccinated to be brought forward by a week. The government had initially set December 1 as the day when the unvaccinated could also return... Read More

NRL 2021: Norm Provan, the story of the iconic photo of the “Gladiators”

“Who is it?” It was the title above the rugby league’s most iconic image when it was first published in the Sun Herald the day after the 1963 SCG Grand Final. It sounds remarkable now, but the ‘Gladiators’ photo of victorious St George captain Norm Provan consoling his Western Suburbs counterpart Arthur Summons... Read More

Melbourne and Victoria, who suffer the longest Covid lockdown in the world, could FINALLY be free within weeks

How tired Victorians enduring the world’s longest lockdown could FINALLY be free in weeks – as large Melbourne hospital takes unprecedented step to keep Covid patients alive Authorities promise to get Victoria out of lockdown before summer months Health Minister Martin Foley confident to end lockdown in weeks Hospitals create additional intensive care... Read More

Melbourne enters its 253rd day of Covid lockdown as NSW is released from strict lockdown measures

With millions of people in New South Wales released from the lockdown on Monday, Melbourne continues its gigantic stay under tough stay-at-home orders, with experts predicting Victoria is heading for 3.00 Covid cases per day. The city is spending its 253rd day of containment since the start of the pandemic in March 2020,... Read More

Drift in ‘out of control’ stamp duties is hurting listings and housing affordability: REIA, SQM Research

Real estate experts say the stamp duty drift is “completely out of control”. See how bad it has become in your city. Australian stamp duty costs are “completely out of control” as “fork creep” reduces the number of homes for sale and fuels affordability problems, real estate experts say. A new report from... Read More

Hundreds of hotel quarantine guards underpaid $ 1.2 million

“We expect all companies at all levels of a supply chain to meet their obligations under workplace laws so that workers receive the wages and rights that are legally due to them,” Ms. Parker said. Of the 15 companies that broke workplace laws, 11 underpaid workers, five failed to meet payroll and record keeping... Read More

Victoria Records 867 New Covid Cases, Four Deaths As Melbourne Lockdown Slightly Relaxed

Victoria has recorded 867 new cases of Covid-19 and four deaths as the state reaches 80% of the first dose of vaccination. Tuesday’s figures are the state’s highest daily figure since the pandemic began, surpassing the previous record of 847 cases recorded on Saturday. Victoria also had more cases than NSW ‘, which... Read More

Iris Capital bets $ 800 million on the Gold Coast, abandons Victoria

Mr Arnaout said his main concern with Victoria was a “massive oversupply” of apartments in a market dependent on demand from students and international investors, both of which have fallen sharply. Instead, it will focus its interstate efforts on transforming Broadbeach’s Niecon Plaza – purchased for $ 58 million earlier this year from the... Read More

Best charcoal chicken in 2021

Charcoal Chicken is that delicious, reliable friend that you always have in your back pocket. Too tired to cook? On the way for a picnic? The roasted humble chook is a treat for everyone. But not all charcoal chickens are created equal, some excel above others – more succulent, crispier skin, and stuffed... Read More

UNESCO World Heritage Sites: The 33 Listed Areas of the UK – How many have you visited?

Cultural sites 1 Industrial landscape of Blaenavon (2000) Blaenavon, in the Avon Llwyd Valley of South Wales, has UNESCO status for its importance in the iron-making and coal-mining industries, making it a historic artefact key to the industrial revolution. 2 Blenheim Palace (1987) Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire was designed by John Vanbrugh. With... Read More

Neale Whitaker’s design tips for transforming your home into a home

At the risk of crushing Carrie Bradshaw, are we sacrificing our personal tastes in favor of an imaginary real estate checklist? If you are planning to sell your home next year, then maybe those bright yellow craft tiles you just fell in love with are not recommended. But if this is your forever... Read More

Development of a network of circular economy villages

How to design garden cities in the 21st century to support the economic growth of regions? How will new technologies, in particular the Internet and renewable energies, influence future settlement patterns? Can the principles of the circular economy enable economic activity that has a positive impact on the earth and on people? Since... Read More

Ballarat to be plunged into lockdown as Shepparton cleared to open

Long lines formed at Ballarat test sites on Tuesday after two popular restaurants and a Big W were listed as Level 1 exhibition sites. Ballarat Mayor Daniel Moloney said on Wednesday that another test site would be set up soon to meet continued high demand in the coming days. “When people saw these... Read More

Covid-19 Victoria: the state will see 18,000 cases of Covid in a few weeks and 800 people in hospital

Entire Victorian families test positive for Covid before a member even knows they are infected with the virus. Concerned health officials blame the discovery as the reason the state’s rapidly spreading Delta epidemic is on track to reach 18,000 active cases in a matter of weeks. “We find cases where entire households are... Read More

Victoria Covid update: Unvaccinated people could be banned from sites when jab goals are met | Victoria

Daniel Andrews has warned that unvaccinated Victorians could be “stranded” from places and events when the state meets its reopening targets. “When we come to these double-dose vaccination thresholds… the notion of locking out the whole community is much less relevant, ”the Victorian Prime Minister said on Friday. “What will become... Read More

Tasmania’s COVID hotel quarantine system to be tested as state negotiates to receive international arrivals

Prime Minister Peter Gutwein says it is very likely that Tasmania’s hotel quarantine system will see positive cases of COVID as the state negotiates the possibility of international arrivals with the federal government. Key points: Tasmania has only received one international repatriation flight to date Last year, the state struck a deal with Victoria... Read More

Hotspot travelers banned from Queensland as authorities suspend quarantine of COVID-19 hotels

Travel plans for those trying to settle in Queensland have been shaken by the news that the state is suspending arrivals from interstate hot spots for the next fifteen weeks. Key points: People who have already received a border pass “entry fee” will have to reapply Prime Minister said the break would help manage... Read More

Victoria COVID cases could lead to a similar increase in NSW cases

Loading Faced with a more infectious and less compliant strain than last year, Prime Minister Daniel Andrews tightened the Melbourne lockdown on Monday. In line with national strategy, he is pushing to eliminate community transmission in order to reopen Victoria and avoid a repeat of what could be months of lockdown in NSW. Professor... Read More

WATCH LIVE: Victorian Prime Minister Daniel Andrews to provide COVID-19 cases, lockdown update

The state’s public health chief has called on Melburnians who reside, work or frequent St Kilda to come forward urgently for a test after a ‘homeless’ sex worker tests positive for COVID- 19 overnight. Victoria Chief Health Minister Martin Foley has confirmed that one of the mysterious new cases of COVID-19 detected in the... Read More

Man who allegedly escaped hotel quarantine and visited SA pub accused of COVID violation

An investigation has revealed flaws in South Australia’s medi-hotel security protocols, which allowed an international arrival to leave the hotel’s quarantine for eight hours and go to a pub and fast-food restaurant. food nearby last week. Key points: The 33-year-old from NSW has been charged with violating COVID regulations, after completing quarantine yesterday The... Read More

Some of the best home loans in August 2021

With lockdowns in parts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland, banks large and small have extended relief programs to affected home loan clients, offering postponements mortgage payments and more. At the same time, big bank NAB has forecast double-digit growth in house prices in the capital next year. Early buyers... Read More

The Great Northern Hotel in Byron Bay sold by the Mooney family after nearly 30 years of ownership

The Great Northern Hotel in the heart of Byron Bay has been bought by two Melbourne businessmen for what would be around $ 80 million, one of the biggest hotel sales to date in 2021. Longtime owners, the Mooney family, landed the iconic pub and adjoining 51-room hotel after receiving a constant stream of... Read More