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However, Mr Stainton said Bindi Irwin was able to cancel commitments at short notice and he explained:

"My criteria is if Bindi doesn't want to do it that day, if she wants to go to the zoo or the beach, then that's what we're doing."

Although he admitted that the trip, which also coincides with the first screening of the documentary her father Steve Irwin was working on when he died, could take its toll on her.

"You can't keep reliving it, reliving it, without it hurting, " Mr Stainton said.

Steve Irwin was killed last year after being spiked in the chest by the barb of a stingray.