"[Extend it] for another three or four months. Because if it stops in September and let's say the borders are not going to be reopened"It is extremely frightening. I know there are plenty of other people crying out for the same thing, but for us we have managed to stay in the game up until now.
Her shops, usually filled with customers giggling as small toothless fish nibble away at the dead skin on people's feet, now lie empty with hungry fish to feed, but no customers in sight.one on the Gold Coast and the other at Browns Plains — she has found herself in significant debt."It is very tough. Just in rents alone we owe over $60,000 and we are a mum-and-dad [family] business," Ms Trueman said.
"Our house is tied to the debt, the debt is getting bigger, we have no income and we wonder are we going to be able to reopen.""There have been times where we thought what do we do? Do we close now? Chuck it all in? Recover. And then get normal jobs, go to work and pay off the debt," she said.
Open the borders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!