This Month
The analyst who quit his job to sail the world (permanently)
Along the way, Brian Trautman met his wife, started a family, and garnered a 'six figure' salary via Patreon, YouTube and Facebook.
- Jefferson Graham
Leaving home at last: travel within your region awaits
As coronavirus restrictions dial down, new luxury hotels, a just-opened gin bar and a $57.5 million refreshed museum are yours for the enjoying.
- Fiona Carruthers
October
Pubs, travel agents and airlines race to open borders
As borders soften, people living in regional NSW can cross into Queensland for a Melbourne Cup lunch, while one Tasmanian publican jokingly claims he'll bar mainlanders.
- Fiona Carruthers and Finbar O'Mallon
Airplane parking lot has never been busier
With far fewer aircraft in the sky than before the pandemic, a business that looks after grounded planes is doing very well, and employing more staff.
- Paul Allen
Travellers look south to Tasmania and beyond
A 10-hour fuss-free adventure; cruise deals to make you go hmm; bucket-list Bali and the Apple Isle prepares to open to NSW.
- Fiona Carruthers
Luxury travel with a difference: a penthouse tent and Qantas cashmere
Its borders might remain closed, but Western Australia features large on the big screen; the Top End shows off its islands and Crowne Plaza has a hat-trick.
- Fiona Carruthers
Investors blast Webjet over CEO bonus package
The travel outfit defends the options granted to its boss, saying there are no guarantees they will turn into cash.
- Liam Walsh
Whoop it up like Harry Styles in Brisbane's $25,000-a-night penthouse
With no international travel for the foreseeable future, those seeking luxury might have to start looking closer to home. Even in Queensland's capital.
- Mark Ludlow
Don't fence me in: new luxury rooms just waiting for you
More than ever, exclusivity with plenty of room to move and few other guests is the travel goal.
- Fiona Carruthers
Acclaimed author rewrites the great Australian road trip
Locked down in North Fitzroy, Paul Keating's former speech writer reflects on the importance of going bush – and why he'll never again take it for granted.
- Don Watson
Why David Williamson won't be writing about COVID-19
The playwright has been spending lockdown at his home on Queensland's Sunshine Beach but he's already planning where he wants to go once restrictions lift.
- Fiona Carruthers
Craving adventure? Four intrepid luxury adventures to indulge in
The rest of the world may be off the travel menu for now, but these escapes to the north, south, east and west of the country offer inspiration close to home.
- Fiona Carruthers
Why people are paying $24,000 to spend three nights at Hermes Estate
As we emerge from our COVID-19 cocoons, a new escape near Bellingen on the mid-north coast of NSW is raising eyebrows – and setting very high expectations.
- Fiona Carruthers
Quarantine exemptions limited to a 'privileged group' as others suffer
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard lectured Queensland about compassion on Friday. But this Sydney resident has experienced little of that in hotel quarantine.
- Fiona Carruthers, Finbar O'Mallon and Mark Ludlow
From pet pampering stays to cruise dates, travel is steaming ahead
We're taking dogs to hotels, cruising prepares for its Australian return, and an alternative Sculpture by the Sea is born: how travel is evolving post lockdown.
- Fiona Carruthers
The best of the Kimberley
It’s so close, and yet it feels so far away. That might just be the biggest drawcard of the Kimberley, a spectacular wilderness in Australia’s north-west
- Ben Groundwater
From homestead stays to streamed safaris, the wilderness awaits
A suite of brand new hotels to enjoy in Adelaide, virtual safaris sweep Africa, and NSW zoo stays take off: as borders reopen, we're all going ape.
- Fiona Carruthers
September
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Travel sector should brace for an end-of-year fire sale
Company executives would be wiser to accept the world has changed than hold out in hopes of a full recovery.
- The Lex Column
It's Capri but without the Americans
The island off southern Italy is open for the season, as it has been for about 2000 years, but the locals are missing its big-spending summer regulars.
- Valeriya Safronova
From Norfolk to the Top End, isolation remains popular
From the island that once haunted dreams to a wartime Sydney tour and a festival of lights in the Red Centre: you can have a bucket-list holiday at home.
- Fiona Carruthers
