Travelling from Melbourne to Perth with my pregnan...

Travelling from Melbourne to Perth with my pregnant wife started off great. We were having a great run until we hit Balladonia and the road block due to bushfires. There were about 200 + people stranded over 2 days. The owner/manager of the roadhouse was exploiting the situation. Increasing accomodation prices, increases food and water prices and was even charging us $10 to have a shower. The attitude from her when I told her what she was doing was wrong was absolutely disgusting.
I can sell this room for $500 if I wanted to is exactly what she told me. We weren t going to pay her $170 for a night! How could anyone be expected to pay those prices. There was a middle aged woman who didn t get a room and ended up sleeping on another couples room floor for $50 a night. We slept in our car.
There were couples with young children and even a 6 month old that had to try and seek shelter from the sun, the owners duty of care to people there was 0. 1 litre bottles of water were $6 and when emergency supplies were dropped off- it turned out it was just extra stock for the roadhouse to sell.
In any type of disaster you d think that you would be helpful to those who are stuck and not take advantage of the situation to line your own pockets.
Utterly disgusted by our experience and I will be sending a proper email making a complaint about this to the DFES and to other WA gov officials and the news.
To those travelling across the Nullarbor, Fill up with petrol in Caiguna and that will get you to Norseman where you can fill up again. If you re after accomodation near there, There is a great place called Fraser Range station 40 minutes towards Norseman that will look after you much better than what the Balladonia Roadhouse will (rooms and caravan/camping sites).
Please don t support a business that takes advantage of people!!