Contact the desk

This contact page is the letterbox for a field guide. It exists because country changes faster than a paragraph, and because readers notice when a sentence has drifted from the park page it was meant to explain.

If you are about to ask whether a named road is open, please stop and open the managing authority instead. Parks Victoria, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, DBCA, NT Parks and Wildlife, National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia, Parks Australia, a land council or a local council will be more current than anyone answering a form. The useful message to this desk is: “your High Country page still describes the seasonal system clearly” or “your High Country page implies something the current Parks Victoria list no longer does — here is the URL.”

What helps

A useful message includes:

• the page you were on
• the sentence or section that should change
• the public source (a park-service or agency page) that should replace it
• whether you are writing as a traveller who just used the page, or as someone who manages the land in an official capacity

You do not need to introduce yourself at length. You do not need to send a trip report unless the report is the evidence for the correction. Photographs of a closed sign help only when they are paired with a date and a location that can be checked against an official notice.

What this desk will not do

It will not book your travel. It will not tell you which commercial operator to hire. It will not set a tyre-pressure number for a vehicle it has not seen. It will not override a closed gate with an opinion. It will not quote a permit fee “so you do not have to look it up” — looking it up is the correct behaviour.

If your question is already answered on trip preparation, recovery, remote-area safety or one of the landscape guides, the reply may simply be a pointer. That is not a brush-off. It is the site working as a library rather than as a chat.

How the form works

The form below sends a message to the editorial inbox. Include a name and a reply address so a correction can be checked with you if the source is unclear. Write in plain language. If you would rather not use a form, you will find that this project is small enough that the form is the channel — there is no telephone switchboard behind the scenes.

Do not send payment details, permit document scans with other people’s information, or anything you would not want sitting in an email inbox. If a situation is an emergency, this form is the wrong object: use the communications plan you should already have, or the emergency service that matches the state you are in.

The privacy page explains what we do with a message after it arrives. The about page explains the editorial rules that decide whether a suggestion becomes a sentence.

If you are writing because a guide helped you leave a gate as you found it, that note is welcome too. Field guides stay alive when the people who use them bother to speak back.

Use the form for one job at a time. A single, sourced correction is easier to honour than a list of impressions. If you have several, send several — the inbox can sort, and the pages can change in the order the country requires.