JobKeeper Payment

428 The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay) (1 April 2021). What economic modelling has the government done in relation to possible job losses to the visitor economy when JobKeeper ends?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier): I have been advised:

The commonwealth Treasury secretary, Dr Steven Kennedy, indicated to a Senate estimates committee on 24 March that there may be between 100,000 and 150,000 JobKeeper recipients nationally who might lose their job, once the JobKeeper subsidy ends, although there is a 'wide band of uncertainty around this estimate'. We are not aware of any modelling on this that is specific to the visitor economy or tourism sector.