OCTOBER
31:
THIEVES make off with 6.7m Paramount Tribute caravan worth $68,000
from Roadmaster Caravans at Lonsdale, South Australia.
OCTOBER 25:
Reg Gillard to hand over chairmanship of Aspen Group, which has
successful chain of caravan parks, to Frank Zipfinger on Nov 28.
OCTOBER 25:
Caravanners lucky to escape injury when caravan bursts into flames
while being towed on Queensland's Bruce Highway near Bli Bli turnoff.
OCTOBER 24:
Safety of slide-on campervans questioned by NSW deputy coroner
Carmel Forbes who recommends probe into their stability.
OCTOBER 22:
BIG4 Rich River holiday park in Echuca and Kangerong holiday park
in Dromana, Victoria, to fall under auctioneer's hammer at Melbourne's
Crown Casino on Wednesday.
OCTOBER 22:
Greg Juleff (Groovy), administrator of Australia's biggest online
caravanners' forum,
www.caravanersforum.com, dies after illness.
OCTOBER 21:
Australian Caravan Club opens membership to all classes of RVs,
including motorhomes, fifth-wheelers, campervans and camper-trailers
OCTOBER 21:
BIG4 Deniliquin Holiday Park in NSW wins Supreme Award for
Excellence at annual BIG4 Conference.
OCTOBER 21:
NSW grazier Tom Smith replaces Lionel Mussell as chairman of
Australian Caravan Club.
OCTOBER 21:
NSW caravanning industry mourns death of David Carrick,
longstanding member of CCIA and proprietor of award-winning Jayco Sydney
dealership.
OCTOBER 19:
Nearly 150 caravan and camping sites at Broome's Palm Grove Holiday Park
in WA could be bulldozed in planned $50 million redevelopment.
OCTOBER 18:
Combined Caravan Clubs of Queensland rally raises $7500 for Royal Flying
Doctor Service.
OCTOBER 18:
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service investigate caravan fire at Innisfail.
Caravan on Glady Street burnt out when firefighters arrived around 12.30am
today.
OCTOBER 17:
Six caravan parks named finalists in NSW's Tourism Awards. They are
Deniliquin; North Star; Soldiers Point; Halifax; Lane Cove and Norah Head.
OCTOBER 17:
Federal government-funded study to probe possible economic effects of
climate change on coastal caravan parks in Victoria.
OCTOBER 14:
BIG4, Australia's biggest chain of caravan parks and resorts, will hold
national conference in Perth tomorrow.
OCTOBER 14:
Police swoop on Bass Hill caravan park near Sydney and detained two women
and five children believed to be in breach of visa conditions.
OCTOBER 13:
Sales of Adria caravans across Australia substantially higher than last
year, says importer RV Asia Pacific.
OCTOBER 13:
More than 200 caravans descend on Maryborough Showground for Combined
Caravan Club of Queensland's week-long state rally.
OCTOBER 13:
Defiant long-term residents of the 75-site Lismore Tourist Caravan Park in
New South Wales dig in as eviction threat looms.
OCTOBER
12:
Thieves make off with Makocraft fishing boat and its trailer from
Parkhurst Caravan Park near Rockhampton, Queensland.
OCTOBER 10:
Tourists at NSW's Albury Citygate caravan park in Lavington awakened by
3am blaze which destroyed empty weatherboard building.
OCTOBER 8:
Police hunting two teenage thugs who attacked elderly couple investigating
noises at 1am outside their caravan at Narrabri caravan park in NSW.
OCTOBER 8:
Proposed new $50m caravan park at Pinjara south of Perth in WA given
go-ahead by local shire council.
OCTOBER 7:
Hundreds of caravans heading for Bingara in NSW over the coming week for
the annual six-day Australian Caravan Club muster beginning October 11.
OCTOBER 7:
Caravan rolls on M1 south of Brisbane, the second this week. No one
reported hurt.
OCTOBER 5:
Caravans and motorhomes in the Northern Territory will have to
fitted with photoelectric smoke alarms from November 1.
OCTOBER 3:
Burning candle believed to have caused blaze which destroyed caravan at
Twin Lakes Village caravan park, Gympie, Queensland. No one hurt.
OCTOBER 1:
Manbulloo Homestead Caravan Park near Katherine in NT in mourning
after 12-month-old baby killed by father's reversing car.
