Travel feels ‘quite wasteful’, says a Sydney mother whose family has shelved their school holiday plans amid the energy shock from the Middle East conflict
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Jan and Earl Robinson have been caravanning and camping for nearly two decades but they have decided 2026 is the year they are “not going anywhere”.
After the cost of filling their Ford Everest 4WD soared by 65% in just a few weeks, the retirees, who live in Charters Towers in rural Queensland, indefinitely postponed their next adventure just six weeks before they were due to leave.