$80m a week, 25k jobs: JobKeeper’s massive hit to Qld

Almost a quarter of Queensland’s 40,000 tourism operators are predicted to go to the wall in the months following the removal of the JobKeeper lifeline, which could have dire consequences for the Queenslanders employed by businesses starved of visitors from overseas and interstate.Cairns has become ground zero in the battle for JobKeeper, with hundreds of tourism operations already shut or in hibernation while empty shops and “for lease” signs dominate the once-vibrant CBD.Accommodation…



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