House debates
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Questions without Notice
JobKeeper Payment: Tourism Industry
2:57 pm
Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source
The minister will add further to my answer. One of the key elements of the support that has been put in place through the measure of a 50 per cent discount on flights is to ensure that travel agencies are working closely with aviation operators and our airlines to put together packages to take people into travel agents to give them that business. But, more importantly, the $250 million—the quarter of a billion dollars—of direct assistance into the travel agent sector is directly targeted towards supporting those businesses, who have been one of the most affected through the crisis. But I'll ask the minister to add further to the answer.
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