This is indeed a great day for Queensland … a day I have been looking forward to for a very long time. I know it is a day that many Queenslanders and their family and friends, particularly in Sydney, have been looking forward to.
Our tourism and hospitality sectors have struggled while some of our traditional sectors like mining and agriculture have held up throughout the entire pandemic, and this is a chance for particularly our tourism and hospitality sectors to get more people back to work.
I know there are lots of Sydneysiders who have been wondering whether they could plan a Christmas holiday on the Gold Coast or Cairns or all of the wonderful places in between or north of there.
Now we know that they can, and that means when they come here they will be spending money here, creating jobs here, helping businesses here, to get more people back to work.