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  • ABC Victoria Statewide & ABC Darwin

    As a regular on ABC Victoria Statewide, I make sure my travel discussions with Prue include a Victorian flavour, not just favouring my Western Australian travel destinations. We also talk about travel news and issues, including the tragic deaths of Australians skiing in Japan. On ABC Darwin with Lara, we have discussed the New York…

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  • ABC Statewide WA with Andrew Collins

    Each week on Friday afternoons I present a travel show that likes to focus on Western Australian regions and some international issues and experiences as well. If you’d like to listen on your radio and you’re not in regional Western Australia you can download the ABC Listen app and listen live from 3:40 each Friday…

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  • The Little Airline That Can: The Story of TransNusa Airlines (as published in Airline Ratings & discussed on 6PR Perth)

    I recently had the opportunity to fly with TransNusa Airlines. My TransNusa Airlines experience has been published by the best aviation industry media platform in the world, Airline Ratings. I also discussed my experience on 6PR Perth, our cities best commercial talkback radio station. https://www.airlineratings.com/articles/why-i-would-fly-transnusa-to-bali

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  • ABC Victoria: Travel compensation schemes

    On ABC Victoria Statewide, Prue asked me about the Federal Government’s plans to introduce a compensation scheme for travellers. Unlike schemes in Europe, it’s not likely to be financial. It will start out offering food, accommodation and support to refund or reschedule flights. It will be a bit like making it onto the air bridge…

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  • On TV on The Couch: Sports Tourism

    Talking with Fred on The Couch about sports tourism was fascinating to explore the global size and rise of sports tourism and consider how often people travel for sport, where to see a favourite sport or tour an iconic ground. South Fremantle Bulldogs in the change rooms after a big win

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  • ABC Victoria: When your destination becomes a war zone

    On ABC Victoria Statewide on the Drive program with Prue Bentley, I discussed the decisions that need to be made if you’re travelling into a war zone or if you’re already there. Enjoy listening to audio file below. Always remember to find multiple sources of truth when making complex travel decisions. Get advice and be…

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  • Surprising Selangor in Have a Go News

    Enjoy reading the link below to my experience in Selangor, one of Malaysia’s most intriguing regions.

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  • ABC Statewide across Western Australia heads down our favourite roads

    On ABC Statewide we took a drive down our favourite roads. From Broome to Cape Leveque in the far north, to the roads of the Midwest during wildflower season, the big loop from Perth to Kalgoorlie, Esperance, Albany and back to Perth and how about the Zig Zag Scenic Drive up on Gooseberry Hill? Personally,…

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  • ABC Weekend Explorer … how murals are changing the world around us

    On ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast we found mural trails in Kuching and Milan and in ever increasing numbers here in Perth and our regional communities. Where’s your favourite mural? Where’s your worst? Enjoy listening to our discussion below and then find a way to find a mural next weekend, and then walk to another one,…

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  • ABC Weekend Explorer … time to get some red dust on your boots

    For ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast we thought we’d head over the escarpment, through the Wheatbelt and head up the wide open road to Kalgoorlie. We had callers with tales of brothels and gold in the gutters and the culture of a community that sometimes gets mistaken for being only about the colour of your high…

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