Chairman of Tourism Tropical North Queensland Ken Chapman said that the Government needed to show similar support of that in NSW or else potentially thousands of residents will see an end to business.
"The community's been fighting for a number of years trying to get more investment and more support around additional social housing, and at this stage it is pretty challenging," he said.
Mark Olsen, the Chief Executive Officer at Tourism Tropical North Queensland, estimates more than 600 small to medium businesses are facing imminent closure without a Jobkeeper-style program to supplement losses caused by lockdown.