The end of JobKeeper will force 50,000 Queenslanders onto the unemployment line and send the state s jobless rates skyrocketing, Deputy Premier Steven Miles warns. JobKeeper is set to finish at the end of the month despite hundreds of Queensland businesses continuing to struggle in the face of ongoing international border closures. Mr Miles said Queensland can t afford for its tourism businesses to collapse. JobKeeper ends at the end of the month and we anticipate 50,000 Queenslanders will lose their job at that point, he said. The withdrawal of JobKeeper as well as the COVID supplement represents something like a three per cent withdrawal of GDP from the Australian economy, and if you go to places like Cairns and the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast that 50,000 jobs lost represents something like 15 or 16 per cent of their pre-COVID employment levels.
50,000 sent to jobless queue as JobKeeper ends: Miles
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50,000 sent to jobless queue as JobKeeper ends: Miles
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