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Marginal advantage: a whiff of pork in the government's great tourist ticket lottery

  • Written by Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University
Marginal advantage: a whiff of pork in the government's great tourist ticket lotteryDean Lewins/AAP

The Morrison government’s plan to halve the cost of up to 800,000 air tickets for interstate travellers is a rescue package of sorts for Australia’s tourism industry.

But the highly selective list of destinations – 13 were initially announced, though more may be added – suggests a bit of political pork has...

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