3 days Ago By Heather McNeill
Perth-born Formula 1 star Daniel Ricciardo will once again be the face of WA road trips, with the ‘Drive the Dream’ tourism campaign launching during the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend. The campaign will target visitors from Singapore and across Australia over the next four weeks, enticing travellers with a cinematic short film celebrating Western Australia as the ultimate destination for a self-drive holiday. The film shows Ricciardo and his best mate Blake embarking on another epic road trip, this time from Perth through the Margaret River Region and beyond, where they go mountain biking in Collie, trek parts of the Cape to Cape Track, visit a winery in Margaret River, learn to surf at Gas Bay and wander through Ngilgi Cave in Yallingup.
The short film has been translated into eight different languages and will also roll out in key international markets over the next 12 months. This is the second instalment of the highly successful 2023 Drive the Dream global campaign, which saw Daniel and Blake travel along the Coral Coast Highway from Perth to Exmouth. That iteration has so far reached over 136 million people.
To national news now, and Australia’s business chiefs are setting up a confrontation with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, warning the nation is sliding backwards due to federal workplace rules hurting employers. The Business Council of Australia will use its annual dinner for corporate chiefs on Tuesday night – where Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers will be in the audience – Staying with politics, and the Coalition says its super-for-housing plan could improve the federal budget bottom line to the tune of $1 billion. Meanwhile, synthetic in the Sydney drinking water catchment have been detected at levels more than 50 times higher than Australian drinking water standards – far higher than authorities have previously admitted.
Overseas, Donald Trump has, without evidence, blamed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the latest against him. And one of Britain’s highest profile TV presenters, who delivered the news of Elizabeth II’s death, has . To sport briefly, and just what was in the Instagram post Jack Ginnivan made that led to Port coach Ken Hinkley’s post-game retort on Saturday (and the ensuing outrage-fulled outrage)? The Hinkley-Ginnivan imbroglio was unedifying, but the footy world has been a bit precious about the words that started it.
Spring has sprung in Perth: a warm top of 27 degrees after an overnight minimum of 12. Good morning, and welcome to our daily live news blog. When we left you yesterday, residents in Carnarvon’s North Plantations were under a bushfire emergency warning and being urged to evacuate their properties as embers sparked spot fires up to 100 metres ahead of the fire front.
An evacuation centre was set up in Carnarvon as firefighters fought the blaze, which was reported just after 3pm on Monday. Conditions have since eased overnight, with the fire downgraded to an advice alert as firefighters continue to mop up spot fires. In other news today, Sarah Brookes looks at the rising cost of building in Perth and across WA – and the common trait the most expensive areas to build in have in common.
The price to build a new house in Perth . But how does that compare to other major cities in Australia? And, on a lighter note, journalist Brendan Foster puts forward his case for why summer the best time for a trip to our city’s favourite holiday island, Rottnest. Do you prefer Rotto when it’s raining? Or a trip to Margs when the skies are cloudy? Let us know your holiday hot takes in the comments.
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