Business leaders are becoming increasingly vocal over COVID-19 vaccination take-up, with the boss of travel giant Flight Centre calling for vaccines to be made mandatory. Flight Centre managing director Graham Turner said on Monday that if the government ordered people into hotel quarantine it could mandate the jab. He said Australia was in a race to get everyone vaccinated so borders could reopen and life could return to normal. It just seems strange that we can mandate compulsory hotel quarantine but make vaccinations voluntary, said Mr Turner. The reluctance to make it compulsory could be political but it just seems to be a double standard.
Queensland Treasurer challenges voters to make LNP seats marginal in budget response
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Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick has called on the state’s “ripped off” voters to make federal LNP seats marginal to get a bigger share of the federal budget.
It comes as Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk criticised Canberra for failing to stump up cash for federal quarantine facilities.
Treasurer Cameron Dick has criticised Queensland’s share of the federal budget.
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Mr Dick said money for Queensland was being promised for years down the track, and the state did not get its fair share.
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IPSWICH business owners might be sleeping a little easier after emerging as one of the biggest winners under the 2021-22 budget.
As Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced the budget on Tuesday it was revealed that small to medium-sized enterprises would be offered some respite through tax cuts following a year of uncertainty.
The corporate tax rate for SME’s is set to dip to 25 per cent from July 1 this year from its previous 30 per cent, delivering about $16 billion in savings by 2023-24.
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It comes as Mr Frydenberg cited grassroot businesses as a key pillar to aid Australia’s economic recovery in the wake of the pandemic.
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Subscriber only Jobs in paradise are going begging with the young and old being urged to take a gap year in their own backyard.
The Courier-Mail has found five of the most beautiful spots in the state where travel-hungry teens and grey nomads could lend a hand to businesses struggling to fill thousands of vacancies. From ginger picking on the Sunshine Coast to working on white, sandy beaches on the Great Barrier Reef s Green Island, bosses are pleading for staff - with no experience needed in some cases. Growcom s Regional Agriculture Workforce Officer Blair Brown said the lack of employees has hurt the industry but Australians looking for adventure can get it while working and exploring regional Queensland.
Premium Content Small business owners are being squeezed out of rentals, pressured to sell their homes, and even pushed to suicide as the true toll of a post-pandemic economy reveals itself. Desperate businesses have inundated Small Business Commissioner Maree Adshead s office with 4500 calls, including more 760 related to leasing disputes, new figures show. About 70 per cent of those involved battles with landlords over the amount of COVID rent relief to be paid under commercial leasing protections introduced last year. Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland s Amanda Rohan said businesses were now dealing with the enormous strain of having to repay previously frozen rents while also recovering from the most recent lockdown without the safety net of government support or rent relief.