Thousands of visitors flock to Australia's national parks each year – and many take silly risks. How do we keep people safe?

  • Written by: Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Thousands of visitors flock to Australia's national parks each year – and many take silly risks. How do we keep people safe?Shutterstock

A man was airlifted to hospital last weekend after falling ten metres from a waterfall in Queensland’s Tamborine National Park, which was closed to due to storms. And last month, a major safety operation was launched to rescue nine bushwalkers in Wollemi National Park near Sydney after one walker fell from a cliff and suffered a...

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