It’s been three months that the sector which was pretty much the first to be shut down, ever since the ban happened on 50 if you’re outdoors and 100 if you’re indoors, they were the first industry shut down.
And so there’s a lot of hope that finally the government has recognised there’s a problem. Because we’ve been calling for there to be a package all of that time. I think what they need to do, and there’s different ways of doing it, but what matters is that they hit both sorts of groups.
There are the companies that employ artists, technicians, labourers, all the people who are responsible for bringing performance together. And then there are the workers themselves, and the workers themselves have largely been locked out of jobkeeper.
Some of them because of lumpy income had problems with jobseeker as well. But what matters is that the government deals with both. Now what’s been put into the newspapers today says that they’re looking at the employer side of it and that’s important.
And that’s really going to matter. They’re also going to need to make sure that they do something about the people who work for those companies, because they certainly shouldn’t and I don’t see how they can be, left at a loose end not for months and months and months while we wait for the industry to be opened back up.
