New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has known as for the $5 billion cruise business to be re-opened "as quickly as we are able to, as safely as probably".
"It is an business that has executed it extremely robust over the previous couple of years," he stated.
Whereas re-opening the business had been mentioned final yr, he stated Omicron had in all probability delayed it.
"It does not make a lot sense that you have individuals leaving Australia to go cruising abroad, however they can not go cruising in Australia," he stated.
He stated an ideal deal would depend upon federal authorities choices, however that the dialogue would little doubt return to prominence in Nationwide Cupboard as Australia continued to emerge from the Omicron wave.
Well being Minister Greg Hunt prolonged the cruise ban till February 17 in December final yr, regardless of earlier saying he wished cruises again on by Christmas this yr.
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Contained in the world's largest cruise ship
The $5 billion business helps 18,000 Aussie jobs.
Journey brokers, meals suppliers, maritime corporations and on-shore tour and tourism corporations additionally endure a knock-on impact.
President of P&O Cruises Australia Sture Myrmell known as the continued shutdown "discouraging".
"Federal and state governments are but to stipulate their necessities for restart regardless of the nation's excessive vaccination fee, the cruise business's complete well being protocols, vaccination insurance policies for friends and crew and the profitable resumption of cruising in different worldwide markets," he stated.