It’s 2030 and you’re going on holiday

Your holiday starts where it always has: sprawled on your couch, with a half-eaten pizza balanced precariously on one knee.

Holidaying 2030 style. 

You have a precious three weeks off work coming up, a bad case of the travel bug and no idea where to go. It’s time for some inspiration.

You blink your right eye twice to call up the social media feed on the lenses of your smart glasses.

Read the ABC News story by Annika Blau - ‘It’s 2030 and you’re going on holiday.”

(A question about visual travel to a recent webinar considering tourism in a warming world was answered, but not with any convincing authority as the emphasis was more on why would people travel to see a Great Barrier Reef, and similar attractions, when they had lost their enchantment because of damage caused by climate change - Robert McLean)

Electric car charging stations power up in NSW with NRMA set to add 40 around the state

If you have an electric car, you would be hard pressed to take it on holiday, with only 50 charging stations across the country and just 11 in New South Wales.

In Newstead in Victoria, locals used their initiative
 and made a charging station from an old petrol bowser.

The state's peak road user group, the NRMA, is set to change that with plans to establish a network of fast-charging stations for electric and hybrid cars in NSW.

The plan involves a phased introduction of at least 40 stations at a cost of $10 million.

The NRMA and the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC) believe vehicle price and a lack of charging infrastructure are barriers to growth in the uptake of electric cars in Australia.

According to the EVC, sales of electric vehicles across the nation slumped 23 per cent from 2015 to 2016.

Read the ABC News story - “Electric car charging stations power up in NSW with NRMA set to add 40 around the state.”