Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, PM. I was at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary with our three wonderful members from the Gold Coast on Friday, and can I tell the House that the reception of our package there, on the Gold Coast, was huge—absolutely huge. One of the other things that I can report is that, following the announcement, the bookings that we have already seen with our major airlines have been quite extraordinary. In fact, they haven't seen booking levels like it since before the COVID-19 pandemic. What the tourism industry said to the government was that, more than anything else, they want tourists, and what our $1.2 billion package was all about was making sure that we're putting confidence into the aviation sector, confidence into the tourism sector, so that people will get moving again. And they have voted with their feet. They're booking airline tickets like they haven't been booked in the last 12 months, and our discount tickets haven't even started. Forty-six thousand—

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