Aust Travel will consider original essays that help a reader choose or use an Australian region: a walking season, a ferry practicality, a park protocol, a climate nuance that official sites bury. We will not consider listicles, hotel round-ups, sponsored itineraries, AI-spun archive rewrites, or anything that needs a price or a ranking to work.
Standards
- Original. Written for this site. Not previously published, not scraped, not a lightly edited brochure.
- Citeable. Facts a reader can check at BOM, a park service, a marine-park page, Home Affairs, or another primary source. Link them.
- No inventions. No fares, no “top ten”, no invented quotes, no operator of the month.
- Respect. Traditional Owner protocols, cultural closures, and safety warnings are not colour. They are instructions.
- Length and shape. Roughly 1,500 words for a guide, with the direct answer to the reader’s question in the first stretch, not the last.
How to pitch
Use the contact form with topic “Write for us”. Send a three-sentence pitch, your proposed region or question, and two sources you would rely on. Do not send a full draft first. Do not send attachments of unpublished books. We may decline without a long explanation.
If we proceed, we edit for house style, add the fleet disclaimer footer, and retain the right to update the piece when official advice changes. Bylines are available for accepted work. Payment, if any, is discussed before you write — we will not invent a rate here.
Field notes for this page
Distances in Australia punish optimism. If a mapping app promises you two landscapes in one daylight window, believe the second half of that sentence more than the first. Build a spare afternoon for weather, ferries and park closures. Drink water in the heat. Slow down at dusk. Swim between the flags on patrolled beaches and treat crocodile, stinger, alpine and fire signage as instructions.
This rebuild of Aust Travel keeps clean heritage paths alive with new copy and sends messy brochure URLs toward the nearest hub. It does not keep archived prices. Official park, marine-park, road and visa pages override anything here when they disagree. Send corrections through the contact form.
What a good pitch looks like
A good pitch names a region grain, a season, and two official sources. Example: “How Litchfield’s plunge pools actually close in the build-up, with Parks Australia and BOM as sources, 1,500 words, no operator list.” A bad pitch names a hotel, a price, or a “hidden gem” that needs secrecy to work. We do not publish secrecy. We publish orientation.
If you are a Traditional Owner, ranger, or scientist offering a correction, skip the pitch format and use the contact form with topic “Correction or update”. That queue goes first.