After years of social distancing, rising fuel prices are forcing regional parents to return to carpooling to ferry children to extracurricular activities.
After several years of living with COVID-19, life is starting to return to normal on the Victorian-New South Wales border and the Albury-Wodonga Theatre Company is getting ready to put on two shows.
"What the parents have done is we've got together and we've got a roster and we're now carpooling, so those young actors that are in both performances will be at one rehearsal and then we all carpool them over to the next rehearsal later in the day," she said. "I did think that this year I'd be able to see them a bit more and they'd be able to come down and see me," she said.
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