Hospitality businesses hit hard by COVID outbreak unite to call for government support

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January 22 2022 - 5:00pm
HARD TIMES: Jackson Dunlap, of Saints Bar, is leading the push for hospitality businesses to receive some form of financial assistance. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
HARD TIMES: Jackson Dunlap, of Saints Bar, is leading the push for hospitality businesses to receive some form of financial assistance. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

THEIR stories are the same - hundreds of cancelled bookings, revenue down as much as 90 per cent, a struggle to offer staff shifts and ongoing worries about how their business will survive.

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Max McKinney

Journalist at Newcastle Herald

Max McKinney is a sports reporter with the Newcastle Herald. He previously worked in news, covering mainly local government and transport. Max mostly reports on the Newcastle Knights, but also covers a mix of local sport.