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We can cruise at home and have glorious choices: rust-red Kimberley gorges; reefs and sapphire-sea islands in Queensland; forest-draped bays in misty Tasmania.
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Global cruise operator Scenic has axed all six of its June-August sailings in Western Australiaâs Kimberley region, with other foreign lines also cancelling similar planned local departures as the industry comes to grips with a prolonged hard border.
Delivering the Federal Budget on Tuesday night, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg confirmed inbound and outbound international travel would remain low through to mid-2022. From that point, a âgradual recovery in international tourism is assumed to occur,â the Budget papers say.
The Australian cruise industry, worth just shy of $5 billion a year to GDP, has been in talks with federal, state and territory governments for months, hoping for the green light to sail a handful of pre-quarantined ships with vaccinated crew into Australian waters for small-scale, Australians-only bubble cruises, for which they have sold hundreds of berths.