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Borders are open, but we’re still holidaying at home in record numbers

Fiona Carruthers
Fiona CarruthersTravel editor

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Chris Hemsworth’s 70-metre super yacht The Felix has been floating around the Whitsundays for weeks, as has Alani, the boat used recently by George and Amal Clooney that can be hired for seven nights for $73,500.

In hippie chic Byron Bay, Peter Windrim of Natural Order Wines is still busily boxing half a dozen cases (in recycled cardboard) of preservative-free Vegan Sparkling, then e-biking it to southerners renting million-dollar shacks off Jonson Street for $2000-plus a day.

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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com

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