Tasmanian Senator JacquiLambie says she would support a royal commission into the Ruby Princess cruise ship fiasco if preliminary investigations did not “do their job”.
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie says she would support a royal commission into the Ruby Princess cruise ship fiasco if preliminary investigations did not “do their job”. Speaking to Sky News on Tuesday, Senator Lambie said she was not interested in “playing the blame game” when it came to the coronavirus outbreak in Tasmania but acknowledged it would have huge ramifications on the state.
“Me playing the blame game isn’t going to help any of us, I’m more worried about the economic impact this is going to have,” she said. “We’re in a really tough economic situation right now and I’m too busy working out what I can possibly do or provide so when we come out of it we’re not so bad off. “If you don’t have small businesses running, you’ve got a pretty dead economy.
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