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Travel to Australia and get to know where the locals eat, drink and play in inner-city Brisbane and its nearby urban villages. Soak up the subtropical climate, explore the river, parks and outdoor spaces, or delve into a calendar of internationally acclaimed arts, cultural and sporting events. Brisbane is a great place to entertain the kids, or spend time without them! You’ll discover some of the best restaurants in the country as well as a…
Travel to Australia: The “Capital Express” flight—using Boeing 777-200 aircraft in a 266-seat, two-class configuration (38 business and 228 economy class)—continues on a triangular route from Changi to Canberra then to Wellington, New Zealand, before returning to Singapore via Canberra. The Star Alliance member operates an extensive network to Australia, including flights from Singapore to Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Its regional subsidiary SilkAir serves Cairns and Darwin from Singapore, while low-cost subsidiary Scoot…
Travel to Australia from Los Angeles five times a week to Melbourne on a Boeing 777-300ERs. Virgin Australia’s new services begin in April and June 2017. In order to create extra flying time on the five 777-300ERs required to return to the Melbourne-Los Angeles route, Virgin is to drop its three times a week Sydney-Abu Dhabi flights from February 4 2017 and reduce Brisbane-Los Angeles from daily to six times weekly. There will also be…
Travel to Australia and arrive at Bathurst, New South Wales and experience the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum. Home to the famous Somerville Collection the museum features 2000 fossil and mineral specimens displayed in the Fossil Gallery and the Mineral Gallery. A unique education resource, The Mineral Gallery includes specimens from many of Australia’s and the world’s most important mines. The gallery features rare formations, crystallised gold, raw gemstones, delicate uranium mineral crystallisation and stunning…
Travel to Australia and visit Esperance, a 1.5 hour flight or eight-hour drive south-east from Perth. The calm, clear waters of Blue Haven Beach and Twilight Cove, just a short drive from town, are idyllic spots for swimming and snorkelling. Locals say the lagoon just east of West Beach is worth a snorkel too. If you’re seeking waves, hit the surf at West Beach, Fourth Beach or Observatory Beach. To hook dinner, throw in a…
Travel to Australia will increase via the new route that will boost tourism and trade to Sydney and NSW, bringing an additional 16,600 Chinese visitors and an anticipated $62 million in additional visitor expenditure each year. NSW Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres welcomed the new Hainan Airlines Changsha to Sydney service and said China is NSW’s largest source of international visitors. “In the year ended June 2016, we saw 639,000 visitors…
Emigrate to Australia means more than just sunshine and a healthy lifestyle, it means enjoying the best entertainment to be found anywhere in the world. Bruce and the E Street Band are to tour Down Under for the third time in four years beginning in January. The concerts will include both outdoor stadiums and indoor arenas and fans can expect to witness shows lasting up to four hours. Bruce Springsteen last toured Australia in 2014…
Emigrate to Australia where Canberra has the right conditions to produce excellent wines, stone fruit, apples, cherries, the highly regarded Black Winter Truffle, excellent meat, mushrooms and fungi, and native Australian foods. Organic and food miles factors play heavily in local food suppliers and our local restaurants and chefs have established excellent lines of supply for their dishes. When you emigrate to Australia what you find at the markets, you may also find on your…
Travel to Australia: more than eight million overseas visitors have arrived so far in 2016 following another double-digit rise in monthly arrivals. 716,000 people arrived down under for a short-term visit in July, an increase of 14 per cent on the same time last year. And 2016 is set to be a record year for visitors with a total of 7.935 million arrivals in the 12-months to July. New Zealanders made up the bulk of…
Travel to Australia: Total passenger traffic between India and Australia has risen by 30%, leading the Australian government to seek more direct passenger services in a bid to boost tourism. Around 160,000 people travelled from India to Australia in 2013 and last year the number of visitors increased to 242,000, an increase of 9.4%, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics and Tourism Australia. The most popular Indian gateway for Australia-India traffic is Delhi, the base…
