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Premium Content  The owner of a Cairns adventure company which has already lost access to the JobKeeper subsidy has a worrying warning for the tourism industry when the scheme is terminated next week. The looming end of the JobKeeper initiative on March 28 has many in tourism circles fearing an industry Armageddon amid predictions up to 25,000 Queenslanders in the sector alone could lose their jobs. Roderic Rees, whose Cairns Adventure Group runs Foaming Fury and Raging Thunder rafting operations at Barron Gorge, has already felt the impact of losing JobKeeper after changed criteria made his workers ineligible at the beginning of the year.
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The Tourism & Transport Forum has welcomed the federal government’s decision to subsidise 800,000 airfares, but warns that it will not be sufficient to preserve jobs across the broader tourism industry. It has called for a dedicated wage subsidy to come into effect until international travel resumes.
It is a theme echoed by Cairns Adventure Group Director Roderic Rees, who appeared on Sky News yesterday calling for a wage subsidy to lift employee confidence so that businesses can “ride out the quiet times” and hold on to their “key specialised staff”. According to the interview (video below):