Carnival Australia found negligent over Ruby Princess Covid outbreak
Carnival Australia has been found to be negligent and engaged in misleading representations after a COVID-19 outbreak on Ruby Princess in 2020, the Federal Court has found.
Investigation ends into Ruby Princess and Covid outbreak
More than three years on from the biggest incidence of COVID during the pandemic, officials and police have closed their investigations.
Ruby Princess Class Action trial commences: Here’s what’s being determined
The Federal Court trial for the Ruby Princess Class Action suit has begun, with the court set to determine whether Princess and Carnival Cruises ...
Ruby Princess passengers given hearing date for claims over ill-fated journey
Passengers and relatives of those who died as a result of the ill-fated journey of the Ruby Princess have received a date for their ...
Ruby Princess cleared of knowing about COVID cases on board when she sailed to New Zealand
Princess Cruises yesterday welcomed the outcome of a New Zealand Customs’ inquiry into Ruby Princess’s visit to the country in March 2020 which found ...
Australia’s cruise return a race against time to salvage the last of the 2021/22 wave season
The cruise industry is expecting to meet NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard and other officials at a watershed meeting shortly to decide how and ...
Is it time we laid the Ruby Princess saga to rest?
Ruby Princess and what happened in March last year when she docked in Sydney simply won’t go away. There has already been a special ...
Lawyers claim Carnival will say passengers aboard Ruby Princess “failed to take reasonable care”
Lawyers acting on behalf of hundreds of passengers taking action over the Ruby Princess COVID-19 outbreak claim Carnival PLC and Princess Cruises’ defence documents ...
Passengers suing Carnival over Ruby Princess COVID outbreak get mediation date
Just over a year since the Ruby Princess was embroiled in the start of the COVID lockdown in Australia, a date has been set ...
NSW Health’s release of Ruby Princess passengers spread COVID to a Qantas flight
Thirteen Ruby Princess cruise passengers unknowingly spread COVID-19 on a five-hour flight to Perth to at least eight others after NSW Health allowed the ...
Princess Cruises claims sailing Ruby Princess followed Prime Minister’s example
A class action lawsuit against the Ruby Princess operators started on Wednesday, hearing evidence from the lead plaintiff, a retired police officer who nearly ...
Heads should roll as yet more bungles revealed about Ruby Princess
Cruise Passenger readers – Australia’s biggest cruise community – have given their verdict on the report into the Ruby Princess debacle. An overwhelming 82.6 ...
Now NSW Premier says sorry – but what happens next?
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has apologised for the “hurt, stress and trauma” caused by the mistakes of NSW Health involved in the Ruby Princess ...
“Everyone makes mistakes” – the conclusions of the Ruby Princess inquiry into 28 deaths
Cruise Passenger analysis There are hundreds of passengers milling around at Circular Quay. They are waiting for cabs, buses or relatives. It’s a familiar ...
‘Serious mistakes’ made by NSW Health as Ruby Princess report handed down
NSW Health made a number of serious mistakes of its handling of the Ruby Princess including the delay in sending swabs for COVID-19 testing ...
Government studies Ruby Princess report as one last surprise is revealed
The special inquiry headed by leading silk Brett Walker hands in its report to the NSW State Government today – but that didn’t stop ...