Australian tourism industry seeks urgent help as cost of bushfires grows
Wallaby eats after NSW's DPIE workers air-dropped food around national parks/ MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's peak tourism body estimated the country's bushfire crisis has so far cost the industry almost A$1 billion ($690 million) and called for urgent help from the government to lure back visitors. Industry bosses were due to meet with Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham later on Thursday as storms and heavy rain brought some respite from months of fierce bushfires across Australia's east coast. The fires, which have killed 29 people and ...
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