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Queensland Tourism Industry Council CEO Daniel Gschwind has urged state governments to co-operate on COVID-19 lockdowns and border closures.
Gschwind estimates that lockdowns cost Queensland’s tourism industry between $10 billion and $20 billion in 2020, noting that tourism operators in the regions were especially hard hit.
From The Australian:
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.