COVID-19 pandemic leads to 50,000 fewer backpackers in Australia, prompting parliamentary inquiry6/24/2020 Backpackers will be the focus of a new federal parliamentary inquiry designed to help tourism, health and farm sectors recover from the economic impacts of COVID-19.
Key points: The COVID-19 pandemic has meant there are 50,000 fewer working backpackers in Australia A parliamentary inquiry will look at how to help the tourism, health and farming sectors recover economically The inquiry will also look at the possibility of out-of-work Australians taking up jobs typically filled by backpackers With unemployment in Australia expected to reach 10 per cent, the inquiry will look at the possibility of out-of-work Australians taking up jobs typically filled by working holiday-markers. New South Wales Liberal MP Julian Leeser, who will chair the inquiry, said there were about 50,000 fewer backpackers in Australia because of the pandemic. Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-06-24/working-holiday-maker-inquiry-called-migration-inquiry-suspended/12388868
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