Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia, 1980s
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A collection of stories, photos, videos, ads from the tourism boom-times of the 1980's in the Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia
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Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia, 1980s
- 1. Tourism & the Whitsundays in the 1980s I was involved in the Whitsundays tourism industry from 1979 to 1987. Firstly, I was a tour guide for camping & resort/hotel tours along Australia’s east coast with 2 or 3 night stopovers in the Whitsundays, then as a tour operator packaging Whitsundays tour products then as a resident in Shute Harbour and Airlie Beach (1984 – 1987). In mid 1987, my wife (Suzanne) and I sailed from Shute Harbour to the Hamilton island airstrip aboard Myer Page’s (Australian Pacific or APT) yacht as we departed Australian shores for a few years with our North American base in Vancouver BC. The 1980’s were are interesting period in the development of tourism in the Whitsundays. This amateur collection of photos, links, You Tube videos etc might be enjoyed by those who were in the Whitsundays during the 1980s. If you have some material to contribute, that would be greatly appreciated – just send to Steve Noakes, steve@pacificasiatourism.org
- 2. Some of the faces of Whitsundays tourism in the 1980s Proserpine Shire, census 1986 Population: 11,581
- 3. ‘Less than two weeks before the second Hamilton Island Race, in 1985, the lobby, reception area and function rooms of the only resort on the island went up in flames, causing a devastating amount of damage. Despite the tragedy, Keith Williams, the Queensland entrepreneur who at that time owned the island, pushed ahead with the regatta. The inaugural boat race in 1984 had been a huge success. The combination of challenging sailing conditions and a tropical festival atmosphere lured more than 90 entrants to the week-long event.The first year had been a success and Williams was committed to growing race week. The idea first came to Williams during the 1983 America’s Cup in Newport, Rhode Island, when Australia won. ‘ Source: http://www.afr.com/p/lifestyle/life_leisure/come_rain_ or_shine_88e0WHcRXyd4NzbeK6578J
- 4. Export Swan Lager beer commercial from 1985. This commercial featured Keith Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkpQvLflSSE
- 6. http://yourmemento.naa.gov.au/2012/07/out-of-the-cabinet- america%E2%80%99s-cup-runneth-over/ The 318,300 American visitors to Australia in 1987–88 were almost double those in 1984. Thanks Hoges! 1983 Australia wins the America’s Cup
- 7. Paul Hogan Ads 1984 USA market ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_CPrCS8gs Hamilton Island: Australian Ad Australian Made Holidays Magazine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNYRTwHZ1IM
- 8. Check out this video from 30 years ago - on that very day in 1984, Bernie Katchor and I sailed into Hamilton as that first Ansett flight zoomed in close over us as it made landing approach. Big day out with Sir Joh, Keith Williams, Sir Peter Abeles, Peter Allen, David & Henry the parrot, Bill & Leen Wallace on Dent Is etc etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qeF1S7j_DE (30 minutes)
- 9. 1986 Whitsundays, Queensland Mentions Bernie Katchor, Tony Moscado, Linus Vincent Bagley & features that day we went down to witness Chris Skase & Pixie do the official mud-turning for the planned Airlie Beach Marina - I recall Pixie getting tipsie up at Whitsunday Terraces after the event!. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LCAda10TXk
- 10. 1986 Whitsunday Tourism Association promotional video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= xoj10SCLPfM 4 + minutes
- 11. Hamilton Island - mid 1980's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qeF1S7j_DE Ansett Australia ad (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGcD-rZOYwg Shute Harbour in 1978 and Day trip on Torres Herald. Includes Whitsunday Wanderer & Whitsunday Princess we used to use for our Centralian Staff coach/camping & resort tour groups. http://supersan.net/videos/tr/video/BK8WSclwQ3I/Shute-Harbour-in-1978-and- Day-trip-on-Torres-Heraldwmv
- 12. Mid 1980s - Whitsundays - Hamilton Island glory days - this one includes Stu Walsh , Brian Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq_LWqnL9tc Queensland holidays commercial 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8lB1eFrPc Airlie Beach, Whitsundays 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BUGrWg-law
- 13. The managed funds boom of the 1980’s saw new $ flooding into Queensland’s tourism infrastructure – and the Whitsundays was in the action! ‘The 80s boom teetered and then crashed, however, after the dark days of October 1987 and the property industry fiascos of 1989-92. Tricontinental collapsed through exposure to bad loans made to companies such as those associated with Qintex and Bond Corporation, Hooker Corporation (whose trusts had been in financial trouble since at least 1984) went into liquidation four short years after being taken over by Melbourne real-estate mogul Georg Herscu (who was subsequently gaoled), and several management companies, both in retail and in super, similarly folded in the late 1980s after their equities funds had incurred heavy losses.’ Mees, B., Wehner, M., Hanrahan, P. ( ) Fifty Years of Managed Funds in Australia- Preliminary Research Report https://law.unimelb.edu.au/files/dmfile/50_Years_of_Managed_Funds1.pdf
- 14. During the 1980s, the financial planning industry became one of the largest growth industries in Australia—becoming in fact the service industry that underwent greatest expansion during this period. Part of this explosion in growth can be accounted for by the fact that there was a rapid increase in financial products. Funds held by public unit trusts, for example, were estimated to have increased by 300% between September 1985 and June 1989, to $26 billion. Pp 85 Mees, B., Wehner, M., Hanrahan, P. ( ) Fifty Years of Managed Funds in Australia- Preliminary Research Report https://law.unimelb.edu.au/files/dmfile/50_Years_of_Managed_Funds1.pdf
- 15. Up until late 1987, the funds management industry was promoted in often exuberant and ostentatious terms: magazines like Personal Investment tended to feature the stories of investment managers, advisers or investors against a backdrop of Ferraris, tennis courts, pools and mansions, leading one disgruntled investor to write into the magazine complaining of ‘advertisements disguised as general interest features describing the excesses of people in “rich men’s toys”’. The financial world was promoted as limitless and boundless in potential … pp 96 Mees, B., Wehner, M., Hanrahan, P. ( ) Fifty Years of Managed Funds in Australia- Preliminary Research Report https://law.unimelb.edu.au/files/dmfile/50_Years_of_Managed_Funds1.pdf
- 16. By the 1980s new resorts at Airlie Beach and on Hamilton Island overshadowed a dated Hayman Island facility. It was demolished and replaced by a five star international resort in 1987, aimed once again at the luxury market. http://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/hayman-island
- 17. The Tourism Minister & local member for Whitsundays – ended up in jail. Scapegoat? The pro-development Premier The Police Commisisoner - ended up in jail Russ Hinze – the ‘Minister for Everything’
- 18. The old Hayman Island – before 1987
- 20. Photos from Inaugural Hamilton Island Race Week 1984 http://www.qldyachting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Untitled-56.jpg
- 21. Photos from Inaugural Hamilton Island Race Week 1984 http://www.qldyachting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Untitled-51.jpg
- 35. Lindeman Island 1985 http://tessross.wordpress.com/2012/09/page/2/ Well before the 1980s
- 37. Time before…
- 38. Colfelt & Bradley (1980) Complete YACHTSMAN'S HANDBOOK TO THE WHITSUNDAY PASSAGE http://www.vdebooks.com/the- complete-yachtsmans-handbook.../ The Complete YACHTSMAN'S HANDBOOK TO THE WHITSUNDAY PASSAGE, pdf - Free PDF eBooks Download www.vdebooks.com The Complete YACHTSMAN'S HANDBOOK TO THE WHITSUNDAY PASSAGE, pdf free eBook download or read online on vdebooks.com - City Basement Books at antiqbook.com
- 39. Proserpine Airport South Molle 1983
- 52. After Happy Bay on Long Island became Whitsunday 100 (Ansett preferred), Contiki took over and renamed it ‘The Island’.
- 59. 1987 Australian Tourism Awards Whitsunday Rent a Yacht. Bernie & Yvonne Katchor. Quicksilver (Port Douglas) won the Queensland Tourism Awards for the category ‘Tour & Transport Operator – Local’ . The way the national awards worked then was that the State winners went through to the nationals BUT the Federal Tourism Minister could make a nomination to the national awards also. Hon. John Brown had been a recent sailor in the Whitsundays and nominated WRY as his Ministerial choice – and WRY won !!
- 70. McLean's Roylen Cruises Whitehaven Beach Whitsunday Passage Queensland Australia
- 93. What started as a bet for a bottle of rum in 1977, has become one of the iconic sailing events in Australia. When Torres Herald and Dalhia set off across Pioneer Bay in 1977 for a grudge race, little did they realise they had begun a tradition that is still going. Source: http://www.whitsundaysailingclub.com.au/offshore-racing/events/2013/great-whitsunday-fun-race-2013
- 95. Airlie Beach Race Week in the Whitsundays - an event which has grown each year from humble beginnings, originally conceived to promote the opening of the very first Hog's Breath Cafe in Australia. Don Algie, had arrived in the Whitsundays aboard his classic 55' sloop Storm in 1987 looking for a site to start his brainchild Hog's Breath Cafe after spending four years in Florida. His first taste of big boat regattas was the Hamilton Island Race Week in Easter of 1988 where Storm performed well enough in Cruising division for Don to look at staging a regatta on the mainland at Airlie Beach. A year later, after discussions with the Whitsunday Sailing Club and the upcoming opening of the first Hog's Breath Cafe in Australia, plans were put in place to sponsor a major regatta on the mainland. The regatta was to include a mixture of bay racing around the buoys and long distance races around the adjacent islands of the area over a period of a week. The Whitsunday Sailing Club and Don decided to hold the first regatta in the lead up to the famous Great Whitsunday Fun Race in September in 1990. This event was to be called the Hog's Breath Cruising Classic to cater for the influx of coastal cruising yachts which visit the Whitsundays at that time of the year. http://www.airlieraceweek.com/sailing/regatta-history
- 96. http://www.whitsundaytimes.com.au/news/memorabilia-dvd-launched/2017183/ To obtain copies of Airlie Beach - The Good Old Days DVD and photo DVD, contact Pam Pole on 4946 1271 or email pampole@hotmail.com
- 102. Barr, T. (1990) From quirky islanders to entrepreneurial magnates: the transition of the Whitsundays. Journal of Tourism Studies 1990 Vol. 1 No. 2 pp. 26-32 Record Number 19911896690 Barr, T. (1990) No swank here?: The development of the Whitsundays as a tourist destination to the early 1970s. James Cook University King, Brian. Island resort holidays in Queensland and Fiji as viewed by Australian travellers [online]. In: Faulkner, Bill (Editor); Fagence, Michael (Editor); Davidson, Michael (Editor); Craig- Smith, Stephen (Editor). CAUTHE 1994: Tourism Research and Education in Australia: Proceeding of the Australian National Tourism Research and Education Conferences, 1994. Canberra, A.C.T.: Bureau of Tourism Research, 1994: 57-69. Availability: <http://search.informit.com.au/document Summary;dn=618641520948508;res=IELBUS> ISBN: 0642212783. [cited 16 Mar 14]. Stimson, Robert J and Daly, Maurice T. Policy implications of the tourism boom in Australia [online]. In: Hooper, Paul (Compiled by). CAUTHE 1993: Building a Research Base in Tourism; Proceedings of the National Conference on Tourism Research, University of Sydney, March 1993. Canberra, A.C.T.: Bureau of Tourism Research, 1993: 15-25. Availability: <http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=618138430724537;res=IELBUS> ISBN: 1876685344. [cited 16 Mar 14].