TOUR COMPANY FINED AFTER TAKING 76 PASSENGERS FROM SYDNEY TO DUBBO ZOO

A travel company has been issued a $5000 PIN for breaching a public health order after taking three busloads of tourists to a zoo in the state’s west yesterday. About 9.30am (Monday 28 June 2021), three buses arrived at the zoo on Obley Road, Dubbo. On board were 128 staff and guests – at least 76 of whom were not permitted to travel outside Greater Sydney under the current public health order. Staff at the zoo refused to allow the travellers off the buses and police were called. Officers from Orana Mid-Western Police District attended and spoke to tour operators, establishing the group had...