Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
My bolding.
Wow, open your eyes.
Do you remember the live entertainment industry? Concerts? Festivals? Tours? Theatre?
Bars and restaurants not allowed to operate at 100% capacity.
I can only speak from my own personal experiences - plenty of my friends who are employed as lawyers, accounts, who manage construction companies and tradies are all saying that business is pretty good at the moment. Most of my tradie mates are saying the last 12 months has been very busy for them.
And my local cafe owner (and we are in Melbourne) who was doing it very tough in the middle of last year says now business is up 20% on this time last year (pre Covid).
So unfortunately I do agree - those in the aviation and tourism sectors are in a bubble where things are still very tough. I don’t doubt there are other industries in similar situations - however there are a lot of Australians out there who have plenty of cash because they haven’t been able to spend as much recently.
I do hope this new government package works out (and I have been pretty scathing of the governments handling of most things to date) - more people travelling is a great thing for the economy overall.