Aussie volunteers offered charter flights and a luxury cruise home after Air Vanuatu collapse

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Aussie volunteers stranded in Vanuatu offered lift home on luxury cruise

Australian volunteers, who have been stranded in Vanuatu since an airline's collapse, have been offered a lift home on a luxury cruise ship. Sixteen students and their chaperones with the Hive Rotary Club in Albury were on the Pacific island of Tanna when Air Vanuatu unexpectedly declared insolvency last week.Their club, whose travel insurance policy did not cover insolvency, has been left with $10,000 in out-of-pocket expenses and has been des…