"What the government doesn't understand is that we are the festivals, we are the council shows, we are the concerts, we are the weekend markets, we are the community shows, we are all those things classed as events, and they're not giving us support," he said.
Mr Georgiou said he had waited four months for his claim to be approved, and while he was grateful for some support, it was "nowhere near enough". "We've all got vehicles, trucks, vans, carnival rides, food trucks that have been sitting in warehouses for a couple of years now, not doing a lot. But we're having to pay the registration, we're having to keep everything maintained, we're having to pay all the certificates and so forth," he said.
"We've explained that thresholds for grants are too hard, and the numbers are too low … we work in a gig-to-gig economy and that hasn't been taken into account when these grants had been administered."Mr Williams, who runs his own entertainment agency, said he had to cancel around $30,000 worth of gigs during New Year's Eve and had only received $800 in compensation."It's not about getting endless handouts from the government.
Hasn't everything returned to normal now ? Events are running the same as pre COVID 🤔
You really have to learn to put 'restrictions' after 'COVID' ABC.