A theme across America on Sunday was “I Stand For Israel.” Threatened by anti-Zionism and antisemitism after 4,000 rockets from Hamas landed across Israel in under two weeks, a cease-fire on Thursday, May 20, propelled Jews to mobilize.
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Subscriber only Tourism leaders have continued their attack on the Budget after being shut out of the Federal Government s spending spree. With no new measures announced on Tuesday night, Queensland tourism operators remain fearful amid dire predictions that up to a quarter of the state s 40,000 tourism businesses will go broke before the coronavirus pandemic is over. Tourism and Transport Forum CEO Margy Osmond had lobbied for a new round of JobKeeper-style payments for tourism workers affected by the pandemic but was left disappointed by the lack of new initiatives. Our tourism industry, the major ongoing economic casualty from COVID with hundreds of thousands of jobs lost so far, has missed out on any major new funding which, put simply, is a recipe for further job losses for our sector, she said.
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Global cruise operator Scenic has axed all six of its June-August sailings in Western Australiaâs Kimberley region, with other foreign lines also cancelling similar planned local departures as the industry comes to grips with a prolonged hard border.
Delivering the Federal Budget on Tuesday night, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg confirmed inbound and outbound international travel would remain low through to mid-2022. From that point, a âgradual recovery in international tourism is assumed to occur,â the Budget papers say.
The Australian cruise industry, worth just shy of $5 billion a year to GDP, has been in talks with federal, state and territory governments for months, hoping for the green light to sail a handful of pre-quarantined ships with vaccinated crew into Australian waters for small-scale, Australians-only bubble cruises, for which they have sold hundreds of berths.
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