Luna Park’s legal fight over NYE train threat

Sydney’s Luna Park has taken legal action to save its annual New Year’s Eve celebration, filing a submission to the Fair Work Commission in a bid to ensure the theme park’s harbour party can go ahead.

Luna Park Sydney has taken legal action to save its annual New Year’s Eve celebration, filing a submission to the Fair Work Commission in a bid to ensure the theme park’s harbour party can go ahead.

Amid threats Sydney’s famous New Year’s Eve Celebrations could be cancelled, CEO of Luna Park, John Hughes, told The Sunday Telegraph the amusement park was pursuing “available legal options” and had filed a legal submission to the Fair Work Commission to save the theme parks yearly party.

“Luna Park Sydney are extremely concerned with the timing of the industrial action brought on by the RTBU. We remain hopeful that the situation will be resolved soon so people can go into Christmas with certainty about their arrangements for New Year’s Eve,” Mr Hughes said.

The operators of Sydney’s Luna Park were pursuing “available legal options” Picture: Jonathan Ng

“Luna Park Sydney is pursuing available legal options to ensure that our iconic Harbour Party - with front-row views of the best show in Australia - will be able to be enjoyed by our returning and new guests this New Year’s Eve.

The harborside amusement park has become renowned for its NYE celebrations, with this year’s event marking its 20th consecutive party. Mr Hughes told The Sunday Telegraph that this year’s event was “close to sell out” with a capacity crowd of 6,500.

Industrial action ‘not a game’.... Transport Minister Jo Haylen on Saturday. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

“New Year’s Eve on Sydney Harbour brings so much joy to people all around the world - it would be a tremendous shame for it to be anything but its usual spectacle. “We fully respect the rights of workers and unions to ensure fair standards but believe that the timing of this action and potential impact to Sydneysiders and visitors to the city to be shortsighted,” Mr Hughes said.