{"id":169492,"date":"2025-01-24T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=169492"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:38:58","slug":"popular-victorian-tourism-site-confirms-plans-not-to-celebrate-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=169492","title":{"rendered":"Popular Victorian tourism site confirms plans not to celebrate Australia Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Puffing Billy Railway has confirmed they won\u2019t celebrate Australia Day in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>3AW Mornings<\/em>&nbsp;was sent communication from the popular tourism site, which asks people to instead \u201creflect on the values of inclusivity\u201d rather than mark the national holiday on January 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click PLAY to hear Tom Elliott read the statement from Puffing Billy&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Popular Victorian tourism site refuses to acknowledge Australia Day\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/popular-victorian-tourism-site-refuses-to-acknowle\/embed#?secret=FSeXARdmDB\" data-secret=\"FSeXARdmDB\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPuffing Billy Railway does not celebrate Australia Day,\u201d the communication sent to\u00a0<em>3AW<\/em> reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead, we should all choose to reflect on the values of inclusivity, understanding and unity that are central to a multicultural Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3AW Mornings\u00a0was sent communication from the popular tourism site, which asks people to instead \u201creflect on the values of inclusivity\u201d rather than mark the national holiday on January 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":169493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7660,47],"tags":[993,12026,8],"class_list":["post-169492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-heritage-and-steam","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-puffing-billy","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169494,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169492\/revisions\/169494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}