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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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