Angry Nats push for travel industry job retention scheme

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Exclusive: Nationals MPs are on a collision course with federal ministers over a backbench proposal to offer temporary help to 40,000 workers so the travel industry can survive the looming halt to the JobKeeper wage subsidy | CroweDM

Nationals MPs are on a collision course with federal ministers over a backbench proposal to offer temporary help to 40,000 workers so the travel industry can survive the looming halt to the JobKeeper wage subsidy.

“The aviation sector support of $1.2 billion is effectively an extension of JobKeeper, just dressed up differently,” said Mr Conaghan, whose electorate of Cowper includes Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour on the NSW Mid North Coast. The proposal aims to use $50 million yet to be spent in the first round of the government scheme as well as the $130 million in the second round, spreading this across some of the industry’s 40,000 workers.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg warned the party room last week to be prepared for a “rough couple of months” after JobKeeper ended on March 31, but he told ABC TV on Friday that jobs would recover. The government has rejected calls for an extension of JobKeeper and is wary of anything that looks like a continued wage subsidy, preferring the flight subsidies instead.

Nationals MPs are pushing for the travel agent changes at the same time they voice concern that regional Australia is missing out from the government’s plan to subsidise half-price tickets to 13 destinations.

 

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CroweDM so why should this sector get more help than the 'ordinary' unemployed?

CroweDM Tourism shouldn't exist when so many Aussies live in poverty

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