The company offered two-week overseas study trips that promised to deliver “unforgettable” STEAM education, including tours of NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, and astronaut training that included simulated and “immersive space missions”. It also offered ocean school expeditions to the Great Barrier Reef.
Actura immediately cancelled all its international space and ocean camp school expeditions when the company went into liquidation.
Parents paid up to $12,000 for the trips. Those who transferred payments via direct deposit are unlikely to have their money returned, while families who paid via credit card could claim a chargeback for the payment.
Space camp organiser Actura Australia provided space and ocean camps for school students.Credit: SMH
Shumit Banerjee, the appointed liquidator, said his investigations “indicated the director should have been aware of the company’s poor financial position for an extended period of time”.
“At this stage the identifiable claims against the director are significant,” he said. Banerjee said he had received reports Actura was actively pursuing payments from parents in the weeks before it went into liquidation.
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