Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

What the government has been focused on and continues to be focused on is those initiatives that I have just described to the chamber. The Relief and Recovery Fund also has components which include a focus on tourism, whether that is conservation work in infrastructure upgrades—I've seen those in place myself, granted myself, in Western Sydney and in the Blue Mountains; fee waivers in marine and national parks; funding allocated to arts related organisations to help these important drivers and contributors to the visitor economy remain open; or funding to the export market development grants recipients, including those in the tourism sector, for the 2019-20 financial year. We are very conscious that JobKeeper has supported a large proportion of the tourism industry and we are considering, as I have said before, the best way we can support economic recovery in the tourism sector when JobKeeper ends at the end of March. (Time expired)