Regional Victorians

Results released for the 2018 calendar year, show NSW is still ahead of the game with 34.6 million visitors and their $21.1 billion spend, (the latter up 13% on the previous year), while Victoria sits on 25.7 million visitors at $14.9 billion spend, (up 9%). But Queensland are quickly closing in with 24.1 million visitors and a whopping $18.3 billion spend, a huge 16% increase in spend on last year. A study for The Tourism and Transport Forum. "Unlocking the Great Outdoors" (

Its about the Victoria our grandchildren will grow up in. More figures show a global trend towards peaceful nature appreciation. Birding brings big bucks. With small rural Victorian towns struggling economically (SGS Economics & Planning), yet affording us stunning waterways which would rival Kakadu, the solution is clear. Its time to protect and leverage our nature assets across the state. UNEP (United Nations Environment Program), has found that ecotourism is growing six ti

Nature Based Tourism has become increasingly popular in the last five years according to the latest Tourism and Transport Forum reports. All visitor categories recorded stronger growth for visitors seeking an experience of the natural Australian environment than in overall visitor numbers (see figure 1). In 2016, 5.2 million International visitors (over two thirds of the total International visitors), over 20 million domestic overnight visitors and 23.6 million day visitors

More than 3.2 billion international tourists travel the world each day. "Australia's natural beauty rich and rare, remains a major drawcard for overseas visitors." (The Australian July 2017). This "wide brown land" of ours has a huge number of endemic birds compared to other countries, the most biodiverse waters, the most reptiles, truly unique giant birds and marsupials found nowhere else on earth. "The combination of our unique wildlife and environments now attracts circa 7

Victorians are calling on the Andrews government to clean up the Act. In a second media release in less than a month, the Andrews government is trying hard to portray a care for animal welfare as well as rural economies, issues important to all of us. Recently they "set tails wagging" with circa $300,000 funding for dogs and cats. Now the Victorian government is promoting a care for wildlife, stating wildlife trafficking is "cruel and inhumane" and has "the potential to destr

We believe many people will be asking themselves if our Ministers - who took an oath to serve ALL Victorians - are negligent, at the detriment of our desperately struggling ecosystems, rural economies and public health and safety. We have written to the Ministers to ask them why they have not yet banned duck shooting like other states, and have instead allowed another three month one sided massacre of our Native Waterbirds despite the following facts; Less than 0.004% Victori