Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'll ask the minister for tourism to add further to my answer. What the tourism industry needs is tourists. That's what they need. We want to see the demand come back into the tourism sector. At no other time in the tourism industry's history have they seen a package of support of some $1.2 billion. Never before has there been such a significant package of support provided to the tourism and travel sector and the aviation sector that is going to see Australians getting into the air and then getting on the ground—because a dollar spent in the air is worth $10 on the ground for those tourism and travel industries. So, whether they're up in North Queensland or in other parts of the country that have been so devastated by the withdrawal of international tourists because of the close of those international borders—so necessary to protect Australians' health and wellbeing through this COVID-19 pandemic—on top of the JobKeeper support, on top of the cash flow assistance, on top of all the other measures that we put in place to get Australians through this COVID-19 pandemic—in particular the travel and tourism and aviation industry—further support has been provided. I will ask the minister to add further to the answer.

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