Perth Royal Show cancelled just weeks ahead of opening

  • 📰 9NewsAUS
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 23 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 72%

Australia Headlines News

For the first time since World War II, the Perth Royal Show will be cancelled – a sign of the continued grip of COVID-19 over the state. 9News

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan said the event – which attracts more than 300,000 people every year – is too high risk.

He pushed back a move to phase five restrictions, ensuring the two-square-metre rule and crowd limits on major events will remain in place for at least another two months.The Royal was set to go ahead in late September. Grazier Harris Thompson, who had been preparing his show cattle on his property at Boyup Brook south of Perth, admitted he was disappointed."Third generation showing at the Royal and this year would have been our 12th."

Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 10. in AU

Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Perth teen says coward punch attack came from nowhereA Perth teenager coward-punched in a city nightspot has recounted the horrific ambush that broke his jaw. 9News
Source: 9NewsAUS - 🏆 10. / 72 Read more »

Two women charged after allegedly breaching hotel coronavirus quarantine in PerthPolice allege two Adelaide women ordered to quarantine in Western Australia left a hotel and caught a taxi to a suburban unit block hours later. Victorians we need 500,000 of us on the steps at spring st on sept 13th 12 noon until 10pm The Daniel Andrews Government will be overthrown by the people, Victoria Police you are either with us or against us choose wisely! play stupid games, win dumbarse prizes Whoopee doo, there are literally thousands of kilometres of open and unguarded land where people are streaming across 'closed borders' in Australia. This is all fictional rubbish designed to kill the economy.
Source: SBSNews - 🏆 3. / 89 Read more »

Government's COVID-19 plan left out people living with disability, royal commission hearsA royal commission hears that the Federal Government's coronavirus response plan did not include people living with a disability until a month after the pandemic was declared. This Convid is seriously too much What plan? they also left out aged pensioners. you know - the people who are most at risk from the virus and are the liberal party's voting base? yeah, them.
Source: abcnews - 🏆 5. / 83 Read more »

Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki to play Princess Diana in The CrownThe Australian actor will play the late royal in the fifth and sixth seasons of the show. karlkwin Of course karlkwin Diana was a boy? karlkwin Actress
Source: smh - 🏆 6. / 80 Read more »

Coronavirus: AFL in damage control over hub breachThe AFL was forced to apologise to Western Australia after a Sydney Swan's player breached the league's quarantine hub in Perth. 9News
Source: 9NewsAUS - 🏆 10. / 72 Read more »

Perth teen says coward punch attack came from nowhereA Perth teenager coward-punched in a city nightspot has recounted the horrific ambush that broke his jaw. 9News
Source: 9NewsAUS - 🏆 10. / 72 Read more »