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'They'll spend it': Baird pushes for more youth JobKeeper

Fiona Carruthers

Domestic tourism could return to about 75 per cent of normal capacity by December pending any COVID-19 spikes, says former Liberal Party luminary Bruce Baird.

But the chairman of the Tourism and Transport Forum and Business Events Sydney said it would be a "slow moving" recovery for the already decimated tourism sector, which is losing more than $10 billion a month.

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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com

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