The Show is back this year after a two-year break, with a new name: the “Melbourne Royal Show”.Ticket prices this year are $45 an adult and kids are free with more than 450,000 people expected to attend.The return of Melbourne’s Show after a two-year, pandemic-enforced break is being overshadowed by the threat of foot and mouth disease and soaring prices.Three-year-old Harry Watts at the launch of the Melbourne Royal Show on Thursday. The laughing clowns game will cost $8 this year.
Despite the deals, prices have increased across the board, with adult tickets costing $45, up from $42; ride prices up from $6 to $8 for basic rides; and showbags rising from $2 to $3 for a Bertie Beetle bag and from $30 to $32 for a Pokemon or Harry Potter-themed bag. Ride operator Damian De Jong, owner of Action Events, said ride prices would be up this year as the sector battled rising insurance costs and increases across the board, from petrol to the fluffy toys used as sideshow prizes.“Everything’s going up; inflation is killing all of us,” he said “Our insurance has gone up 400 per cent in the last two years. There’s only one insurer who will cover amusement rides in Australia.
When asked if he would consider limiting the animals in the show, Cooke said there was “always a sliding scale” but organisers were not yet close to restrictions.Agriculture Minister Gayle Tierney said Victoria had 300 biosecurity officers across the state providing advice to people on how to minimise the risk of foot and mouth and other threats and was training 1200 staff.
carawaters Its always been a very expensive day out.
carawaters The melbourne show was a FREE shareholders community of victoria's industries, communities, of us all and got corporitised into a horrid marketing extortion sales pitch against all our states everything. Its been used as another hatred tool to attack & divide community,culture
carawaters no one should be able to go, remember there's a recession and people are struggling to make ends meet?
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carawaters It is called the 'ROYAL MELBOURNE SHOW.' Why the change of language we have used for 100 years? Then again, the Labor Party did once represent men who used their Labour / the working class. Now they represent everything but.
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