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Bryon has neither the Big Banana nor the Big Prawn. You’re thinking of Coffs Harbour and Ballina respectively

That's the problem

And we only have 11 days in NSW and 10 after Brisbane to make it to Cairns

Inland route now takes 1 1/2 hours longer and a lot of that is single lane. The coast road is nearly all dual carriageway from Sydney to Brisbane now with the only parts not, being Hexham near Newcastle and Coffs Harbour. There is still a bit of roadworks on Gold Coast. The coast road is absolutely the safest and fastest way now.

highly recommend renting a couple of foam surfboards. Surfari is the way to see the East Coast

Hey, I'm in the same boat :) what did you see?

Don’t go to Toowoomba. There is literally zero reason to go to Toowoomba.

Port Macquarie has great coastal walk.

i swear they have something big

Plenty of time we drove back recently in 3 days wishe we had more time to take all the tourist roads along the drive and get off the highway a bit more, driving 2 to 3hours veteeen places each day is perfect allows you at least a day or so in each of the places along the way that are worth a visit.

Big lighthouse?

They have a lighthouse and the most easterly point of mainland Australia

Hi guys, later this year I'm driving from Melbourne to Sydney. Currently, I have my P1 Drivers License issued in victoria, however I know in NSW P1 driving laws are different.

I'm allowed to drive the full speed limit in victoria, however once I cross into NSW, will I only be able to drive up to 90km/h? or does it not apply since my license was issued in Victoria?

Thanks

The 90km/h restriction on NSW P-platers is a licence condition, and not part of the Road Rules. Which means as long as you’re not exceeding the speed limit of the road you’re on or driving negligently etc. you’re not restricted to 90km because it’s not a condition on your licence.

Be aware that a cop might stop you if you’re going over 90, but you won’t be fined for speeding.

I drove a b double for years up and down the hume and making P platers drive on it at 90 is literally retarded

My condolences. Not the most exciting drive and you have to do 90kms/h on top? I hope you have a good head unit and podcasts.

You have to comply with the road rules applicable in the state you are driving in despite where you originally received your licence. So yes, you are limited to 90kms in NSW.

The number of near misses I've seen because someone is being forced to do 20 below the speed limit, it's an absolute joke. Watching trucks have to deal with it P platers and a set of hills is frightening.

Oddly this isn't true. Didn't believe it when I first heard it, but it's been confirmed several time.

You have to comply with the road rules of the state you are in, but the licence restrictions of the licience issuing state.

The limits are conditions on your licence, not road rules and thus are linked to the state.

[https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/driver-and-rider-licences/visiting-or-moving-to-nsw/learner-and-provisional-licence-holders](https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/driver-and-rider-licences/visiting-or-moving-to-nsw/learner-and-provisional-licence-holders)

"Visiting provisional drivers

If you have a provisional licence from interstate or overseas, **you must follow the licence conditions applied by the state or territory that issued your licence**, as well as the NSW road rules."

Thank you. This misconception, that even law enforcement seem to misunderstand, is so annoying to me.

To avoid a fine or getting hassled, I always advise people adhere to the NSW conditions and speed limitation on Ps regardless.

More frustrating the other way where a NSW p-plater can be fined for exceeding 90 in Victoria.

> To avoid a fine or getting hassled,

Ironically, the cops have dealt with it enough to get the memo and move on once you’ve shown your state license. Just don’t give the occasional dickhead any low hanging fruit to defect as thanks for wasting his time.

The real issue is fucking retirees with nothing better to do than play cop. They’re the ones who’ll arc up and road rage at you for having the audacity to do the speed limit.

Considering TFNSW cant even fix a pothole on a major route (for six months and counting), I doubt they could even tie their bloody shoe laces

A road and train tunnel needs to go from Emu Plains to Lithgow to really open up the links to the west of the mountains. All the work done on the Highway between Lapstone and Katoomba over the last 25 years is already nearing capacity.

Yeah and this is because of population. You're not going to spend over 100 billion dollars just to connect the Central West to Sydney via the world's longest tunnel.

It would also be an embarrassment to basically concede that two whole decades of roadworks from the late 90's where tens of billions were spent ripping through towns was the wrong decision. And it definitely was the wrong decision. I hate the GWH with a passion. 90, 60, 70, 60, 40, 60, 40, 70, 80, 60, 40, 80, 40, 100, 70, 80, 40, etc etc.

Come on, they have hired a consultancy firm who is first doing a cost analysis and risk analysis, then he will need at least 12 months for it to go to tender and of course it will go to a international Tier 1 vendor like Acciona and the pothole repair program will require independent review and then safety plan.

Totally cost at least 100M, then it will hit the media 100M for a pothole repair, then it will need a commission review and maybe in a 3 years Acciona will hire Airtasker to get a bag of rapidset from Bunnings and they’ll pay $200 while charging the government $20M.

An 80km long tunnel…

Is that what is envisaged?

More than 3 times longer than the world’s longest road tunnel.

And you’d trust the NSW Government to procure and manage that?

I would love this. As someone who lives in the lower mountains and has family in Lithgow and Bathurst it would be rad to drive down to Penrith and the straight line drive to Lithgow inless than an hour.

Agree they should put a train in.

55/60km in a straight-ish line, but due to the nature of the topography in that region, it would probably end up as a bunch of tunnels and bridges. Very doable.

Imagine a bullet train from Lithgow to Sydney

And we’re 40-something thousand engineers short with the current infrastructure backlog….

Let’s pencil it in for Q4 of 2040

I'm going to Cobar for a mining internship, and I'll be there for 8 weeks, but hoping to get out on the weekends and explore what's around. Hoping for some more nature related features to look at rather than museums/mining stuff if possible, thankyou!

Be prepared to do some driving and some drinking.

8 weeks in Cobar? Lucky you.

If you can handle people, what about getting to the pub at 6pm to chat to some of the locals/regulars. Ask them about things to see and do. I bet you get invited to go shooting, fishing, dirtbike riding, etc etc.

https://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/outback-nsw/cobar-area

The Old Res and the Newey are worth checking out. The Open Cut mine is also beautiful at sunset.

Also, drive a few kms out of town and (after obviously checking for traffic. You can see something coming for ages) lay on the highway and watch the stars. It’s gorgeous and worth seeing as there is no light pollution.

A decade or so ago, I had to spend a night in Cobar for work. I had a quiet dinner by myself in the Bowling Club. I was an obvious “Out of Towner”…..and for dessert I got hit on by a swinger couple in their 50’s. Nah.

The golfie is the best spot in town lately for nightlife and there is a new restaurant open at copper city worth checking out

I love this idea, I'm a bit cautious as I'm a young woman staying alone but I reckon I will end up doing this a decent amount, thankyou!

Unpredictable? WTF, has no one ever lived there before?

When SO was a child, school would be rung and told flood was coming down the river by owner higher and all those kids likely to be affected would be sent home ASAP(as quick as school bus could be scrambled). Had cousin say last week, water had reached "some" weir and it would be lapping at his flood banks in a week.

Hint, if you live in an area likely to flood, look up the river gauging stations that are upstream. This are mostly online, so you can watch the peaks rise and IME, they have lines for the various levels of flooding.

My sympathy for anyone in rural areas that doesn't have the 'benefits of NBN revolution /s'.

Unpredictable - a typical ABC headline.

bring out your dead carts coming soon

wish it would all be gone

>It follows Victoria’s chief health officer, Prof Brett Sutton, making a [similar announcement last week](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2022/oct/29/australia-news-live-updates-families-held-in-syria-expected-to-arrive-in-sydney-victoria-flood-warning?page=with:block-635cbdf58f08e9a4a96d6576#block-635cbdf58f08e9a4a96d6576), with Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and XBB tipped to overtake BA.5 as the dominant variants throughout Australia.

........

>Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and XBB are driving [significant cases and hospitalisations overseas](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/01/covid-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-coronavirus-vaccinations-cases-and-deaths) due to their ability to escape immunity from past infection – and due to [waning immunity from past vaccination](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/11/nearly-a-fifth-of-australias-covid-vaccine-stock-binned-amid-warning-of-fresh-wave-of-cases).

Let's have another lockdown to stop it because we all know how well they work.

🤣 ok sure thing Chant

Lockdowns worked very well. Prevented the hospital system from being completely overwhelmed. But they also take a huge toll on society and the economy.

She's more qualified in her job than you'll ever be

lol

That's what I mean, a huge toll on society and the economy. Good for introverts and the environment. Detrimental to mental health of a huge slice of the population. I just wonder what long term impacts they will have worldwide but particularly in Australia.

In terms of hospitalisations, there are better ways to manage the outbreak. Hospitalisations were inevitable. The lockdowns simply stretched them to a longer time scale. Isolate the vulnerable, and set up mass temporary treatment centres. We are one of the richest countries in the world and could afford it. Unfortunately the previous government couldn't do it, or order vaccines on time.

is it's job being a cunt?

Well, that's the whole fucking point about not overwhelming the hospital system, to stretch hospitalisation out over a longer time. Anyway, looks like you know better than people highly specialised in this topic. Better to ask a random redditor when the next pandemic comes along.

Disrespectful being you are. I know many people who's loved ones died from Covid. Without people like Chant, I'd know even more. But you were probably not affected by it, so you don't give a shit. Selfish people make society worse.

Cool so all you're saying is the lockdowns were to prevent the same people going to hospital than rather than now. That's the one positive. Never mind all the negatives including inflation which they're now trying to blame the war for, yet it started way before then. You're right I'm not qualified, I'm simply repeating what other experts have been saying. There's two sides of thought on it yet the media only focus on lockdowns = good.

Except that the lockdowns mostly happened when we didn't have vaccines. We'd have ended up with a shitload of deaths without them (look at the US).

And inflation would've happened regardless. Economies tanked due to people not going out to spend, even after the lockdowns. They saved instead. Governments pumped in shitloads of money, and that's being mostly spent now. Supplier shortages multiply those issues.

Look at the US (again), only some states had a lockdown, yet they have massive inflation as well.

It's not that fucking hard to understand.

And who blames Ukraine for the inflation scenario we're in? Never heard about that.

Wow seems pretty hard to understand if you're going to be swearing like that. Are you honestly stupid enough to not understand how inflation works? Let me break it down for you. The US dollar is used in all US states surprisingly enough. This means inflation isn't exclusive to states that have contributed to it.

Re the US deaths, look at their health system vs ours. You're honestly attributing a vaccine to gloss over one of the worst helath systems in the world? They turned people away from hospitals because they couldn't pay for it.

'We are in a cost of living crisis because of the war in Ukraine' is the line politicians, the media are using. I don't know what rock you've been living under.

You don't say so, all of the US uses USD, great observation.

We went nuts with the lockdown, they only partially. Yet we battle similar inflation issues. The lockdown had little impact on inflation. Most smart people would've stayed home regardless until it was safer again (vaccine), which they did after the mandatory lockdown. People's fear made them stay home, not a government mandate.

The government pumping hundreds of billions into the economy, different story re impact on inflation. People not spending money, same boat.

Besides, a major contributor to our inflation issues is induced by supply shortages.

People getting turned away from the hospital is out of consequence them not giving a shit about covid, completely ignore the warnings, and subsequently get sick. They were the first country with Pfizer vaccine, yet many decided they don't need a vaccine. That all was a major contributor to their high death rate.

I don't care what the line of policitians are. Completely pointless to bring up the Ukraine war.

Fantastic news

the NRL season will kick off around then so you might be able to catch a Newcastle Knights game. The schedule hasn’t been released yet though

I’m visiting this Newcastle area from March 7-9 and Coffs Harbor 10-13. Trying to find tickets for sporting events to spectate their and having no luck.

When this has happened to me, I look at Ticketek, stadium website, teams websites - schedules/calendars