Doctors say Flight Centre should ?pull its head in? after legal threat to WA borders - The Guardian Australia

Medical professionals have lashed out at Flight Centre’s threat to launch legal action against the Western Australian government’s ongoing border restrictions, calling on the company to “pull its head in”.

Flight Centre is claiming it will sue if the state’s domestic and international borders don’t reopen in line with the national plan, when Western Australia reaches 70 to 80% vaccination targets.

Flight Centre’s chief executive, Graham Turner, said he believed his legal team had a “reasonable chance of success” and he would know his course of action by the end of the week.

“The economic fallout is one thing - if you look at tourism, hospitality and travel, airlines have been badly hit, farmers have been hit,” he said.

“It’s just one of the states but it represents quite a big business ... it has an impact on us, as it does on a lot of businesses.

“But the other aspect is relatives ... the people with family interstate who can’t visit for Christmas, it’s a long time waiting. Australia has a constitution for a good reason, we’re a democracy, we should be able to travel freely.”

Turner said he’d been contemplating a legal course of action for “some time” but had been waiting for Western Australia to announce its reopening plan before deciding the “best course”.