| Cruise ban “torture”

THE latest Australian cruise ban extension (CW yesterday), and the federal government’s failure to commit to a restart plan, has become a “job-threatening, slow-moving torture” for the travel sector, Clean Cruising General Manager & Director Dan Russell has emphasised.

The two-month extension is “slowly strangling many businesses that depend on cruising,” Russell explained, describing those affected by the government’s negligence as “beyond furious”.

“Optimism had been growing that the federal government was preparing to lift its biosecurity ban on international cruise ships but these hopes were dashed with the announcement of the extended ban,” he said.