Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

Again, as I've said: supporting rural and regional Australians is in the Liberal-National government's DNA. You'd be aware that, as part of our economic recovery package for COVID-19, we have established a $1 billion COVID-19 relief and recovery fund to support regions, communities and industry sectors that have been disproportionately affected by the impact of COVID-19.

Over $600 million has already been committed to support industries including aviation, agriculture, fisheries, tourism and the arts. These include support for regional aviation under our $100 million Regional Airlines Funding Assistance Program and relief for federally managed fisheries through the waiving of nearly $10 million in levies. The Liberal-National government understand the impact of these occurrences on rural and regional Australia, and we will continue to support them.