Fuel-free travel, train journeys and staycations: how the fuel crisis is reinventing the Australian Easter break

The fuel crisis has spurred many Australians to abandon their original plans for the holiday period in exchange for creative alternatives

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“Australia is a driving country,” says Natalia Kozlov, a lawyer and mother-of-three living in regional New South Wales.

“We all love our road trips,” the 40-year-old says. “We don’t have our high-speed rail that Europe and other countries have – we all drive.”