Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

Further to the Prime Minister, I thank the member for Corangamite for her question, because it's an incredibly important question. The government is providing over a quarter of a billion dollars of support to our travel agents. We've done that through an initial $128 million program, and so far, as of 18 March, almost $91 million in grant funding has been paid and 2,656 travel agents have received payments under the program, and another 437 are being processed at the moment. Can I also say to travel agents, at the moment we're designing and putting the final parameters around the new $130 million program. We had a meeting between Austrade and the four representative bodies last week. There will be further meetings this week. As a matter of fact, I'll be doing some consultations this afternoon on the new $130 million program. We want to make sure it is targeted and will provide the assistance and relief that the travel agents need. We also know that our discount flight program is working. It will start—

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