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Property by Lisa Allen Premium Content Subscriber only Buyer appetite for Queensland's Great Barrier Reef islands has not been quelled by COVID-19, with a Sydney hotelier about to pay close to $20m to purchase Long Island in the Whitsundays. The Sydney hotelier is expected to develop an upscale resort on the island between Hamilton ­Island and Airlie Beach that was this week sold by Sydney-based former investment banker David Kingston, through CBRE agents Wayne Bunz and Hayley Manvell. The 8ha property had long been on the market. Local Queenslanders sa...

  DESPERATE Far North tourism leaders and operators are standing on a cliff edge and fear thousands of people will be left out of work within weeks if the federal government does not extend the JobKeeper program. The March deadline for the COVID payments looms large for the local industry whose business completely dried up with the closure of international and state borders. With February and March already traditionally quiet in the region, the situation has become "dire" according to Tourism Tropical North Queensland chairman Ken Chapman. He said the Far North was the most dependent ...