Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

The government is investing in the reopening of Australia. In fact, just this weekend, the government announced a $50 million partnership with the Tasmanian government to upgrade Hobart Airport—which I know is such welcome news to our Tasmanian senators—so that it can take around 30,000 international travellers each week, beginning with three flights a week from New Zealand. It's these types of investments and deals that offer hope to businesses and workers in the airline and tourism industries that have, of course, been devastated by COVID-19. More planes in the sky, of course, means more jobs on the ground, in this case, for Tasmania and, of course, for our entire nation. The new arrangement that we've announced realises the vision set out in the Hobart City Deal. More jobs for Tasmanians is what we are now going to see.