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Category Archives: Tourism
One in every one thousand people in Qld in quarantine with more to come given sharply rising COVID numbers
According to the Courier-Mail, over 5,400 people, or around one in every one thousand people in Queensland are in active quarantine, mostly because they’re close contacts of COVID cases (see the charts below with data for the Queensland Hospital and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Macroeconomy, Tourism
Tagged covid-19, quarantine, queensland, tourism
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Qld reopening proceeding despite state gov’t generating confusion about entry requirements
Queensland tourism operators would have breathed sighs of relief yesterday after it emerged interstate travellers could rely on PCR tests paid for by Medicare to enter the state. This came after some confusion and anxiety generated by the state government … Continue reading
Tourism operators need Qld Gov’t to continue reopening and not to panic as COVID comes in
There is a lot of excitement about the reopening of Queensland, which can’t come quickly enough, but at least it is actually happening, so long as the Queensland Government holds its nerve and doesn’t reimpose restrictions once COVID cases start … Continue reading
Posted in Tourism
Tagged abs, coronavirus, covid-19, employment, farnorth, goldcoast, jobs, labourforce, qld, tourism, tra
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Travel bubble great news for Qld’s 200,000 NZ-born
As Queensland Premier Palaszczuk pointed out yesterday on social media following the announcement of the travel bubble with New Zealand, Queensland has the largest number of NZ-born people in Australia. Indeed, according to the 2016 Census, Queensland had 201,200 NZ-born … Continue reading
Qld’s economy definitely fared better than Victoria’s which suffered badly from Stage 4 restrictions
Weirdly, CommSec’s latest State of the States report ranked Victoria in 3rd place and Queensland in 5th place, even though Queensland’s economy has definitely fared much better during the pandemic than Victoria’s. In my Thursday post I discussed how silly … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Tourism
Tagged abs, australia, cairns, coronavirus, covid-19, hoursworked, jobkeeper, lfs, qld, queensland, tourism, victoria
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Qld Premier deserves some criticism, but she’s right to highlight needs of struggling tourism-dependent businesses
The NSW Premier, Sky Australia hosts, and other commentators have been quick to criticise Queensland Premier Palaszczuk over her call for the federal government to extend JobKeeper beyond the end of March for struggling tourism-dependent businesses, particularly those in Cairns … Continue reading
Bad news for Qld tourism as border restrictions being re-imposed
Just a few weeks ago, the Queensland Premier was telling Sydneysiders she wants them to come to Queensland, but now they need a COVID test on arrival and need to isolate until they’re cleared, as the state tightens the border … Continue reading
ABC PM comment on border closure cost – Qld tourism worried about loss of interstate visitors over Christmas season
I spoke with the ABC’s Rachel Mealey yesterday afternoon about Queensland’s increasingly difficult-to-justify border restrictions, particularly about the ongoing cost to Queensland’s tourism sector, which is concerned it will miss out on interstate visitor spending it desperately needs over the … Continue reading
Posted in Tourism
Tagged abc, border, interstatevisitors, noosa, nsw, qitc, qld, queensland, tourism
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Defence should never have been on the Qld-NSW border in the first place
Earlier this month, I was shocked when I landed in Bundaberg and was greeted by a police officer wanting to check I was a Queensland resident, but I guess I would have been even more shocked if I tried to … Continue reading
Posted in Tourism
Tagged act, adf, at, bundaberg, civilliberties, coronavirus, covid-19, defence, highcourt, nsw, qld, wa
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Thoughts on the New Normal – latest podcast episode
Regarding a new normal in a post-COVID world, in the June 2020 issue of Monocle magazine, the Editor Tyler Brule wrote: We don’t want a heavy handed ‘new normal.’ We want people to act responsibly but we also want families, … Continue reading
Posted in Health, IR, Labour market, Macroeconomy, Retail trade, Tourism, Transport
Tagged australia, bikes, coronavirus, covid-19, freelancing, gigeconomy, monocle, newnormal, podcasting, publictransport, sweden, uber, upwork, usa, wfh, workingfromhome, worklifebalance, youtubing
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