A 12-storey hotel and day spa is being proposed at Seppeltsfield to become “a Sydney Opera House” like icon to drive luxury tourism in the Barossa wine region. The $50 million six-star luxury hotel project in South Australia will have about 70 rooms, including suites and penthouses, with a private balcony for every room. To […]
Signs that rare bird and marsupial colonies are surviving the aftermath of horrific bushfires are emerging with the help of sensor cameras, water pumps and specialist ecologists. Sightings of tiny dunnarts using motion-sensing cameras are particularly heartening after fears habitat destruction would decimate the threatened nocturnal marsupials already only numbering between 300 and 500. Fires […]
The largest man-made oyster reef system in the Southern Hemisphere will be completed this week when seven million native oysters are released in South Australia. The wild release of the hatchery-raised Australian Flat Oysters marks the final stage of three years of work to reconstruct natural shellfish reefs in Gulf St Vincent, South Australia. The […]