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Engaging with the government and identifying milestones in the vaccine rollout remains instrumental despite the Morrison government abandoning targets, according to Australian Chamber of Commerce Acting CEO Jenny Lambert. She told Sky News even if exact dates were not possible businesses would like to see talks begin about some targets in the vaccine rollout “and then aligning some of the easing of restrictions to those milestones”. “Very, very keen to still engage with the government plan that gives us more certainty and more transparency,” Ms Lambert said. “The important thing i...

Australian Chambers of Commerce Acting CEO Jenny Lambert says a stronger focus should be placed on reopening international borders as domestic spending will never make up the shortfall from an absence of overseas tourists. “It’s hard to estimate but I mean certainly we know that the international tourism industry was $63 billion a year to Australia … we keep saying ‘domestic tourism will replace it’, it’ll never replace it,” she told Sky News. “International tourists always spend more in Australia and they go to … a lot broader range of attractions and destinations.” ...