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Subscriber only Tourism leaders have been left dumbstruck after the industry was largely overlooked in last night s Budget. A $1.2 billion aviation package unveiled months ago and an extension of support for struggling zoos and aquariums were the only major announcements for a tourism industry which had until the 11th hour been begging for a reincarnation of the JobKeeper program. Some workers in the aviation sector will receive income support as part of a package announced in March and tourism leaders wanted a similar scheme to be introduced industry-wide. The Budget papers predicted a mass exodus of Aussies heading overseas as soon as they are able would far outweigh the benefits of foreign visitors returning to our shores.
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“The travel industry has been the sacrificial lamb”: CATO bigwigs plead with Tourism Minister for financial aid 19 Feb 2021
The Council of Australian Tour Operators (CATO) has pushed for post-JobKeeper financial support from the federal government during a meeting with Tourism Minister Dan Tehan this week.
The delegation consisting of CATO managing director Brett Jardine, chairman Dennis Bunnik and board member Brad McDonnell met with Minister Tehan in Canberra on Tuesday to highlight the complex nature of the travel industry and the important role of the land supply sector.
Jardine said Australia’s Tourism Minister was engaged and interested in learning more about the sector and the impacts of COVID.
Shipton lingers, leaves ASIC
Few things could top what the Australian Securities Investments Commission got in the report into the well-publicised saga of payments made to former deputy chair Daniel Crennan, and also the current chairman, James Shipton.
The payment in Shipton’s case related to tax advice that he had received from KPMG, the global accounting firm, during the process of relocating back to Australia to assume the role as top corporate cop. The A$118,557 for tax advice has been repaid by the ASIC chairman, who will leave the role in three months even though the report did not make any specific adverse finding.
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1926, Mrs Horak is a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
She describes herself as a graduate of Nazi Germany s regime of persecution that resulted in the murder of six million Jews, along with other minorities.
On Wednesday, she shared her story to mark the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was located in then-occupied Poland.
More than 1.1 million people, primarily Jews, were killed at the camp.
READ MORE I am a Holocaust survivor. I am a witness. I was in Auschwitz as an inmate, not a tourist, Mrs Horak planned to say during an evening commemoration.