PHOTO: Isolated pubs can become pop-up salons
Traveling hairdressers Jason Brooks and Shane Hawton would like to see dedicated funding to get their service out to isolated towns in the Western Plains.
“The issue we face when we are doing this is that we can cover Brewarrina and Lightning Ridge, but we have problems getting out to all the smaller communities between them. We are trying to get funding to get out to these communities, and if we go out there once or twice, we are not making enough to keep going back out there.” Brooks told the Western Plains App.
“Towns with 60 or 70 people don’t have a hairdresser, and often they don’t have transport to come into a bigger town.”…