Brisbane has missed out on half-price flights to Cairns in the federal government’s $1.2 billion tourism package.  Airfares to more than a dozen tourism-reliant regions will be halved, subsidised by the federal government. But while other states are offered half-price tickets to Cairns, Brisbane misses out. Neil Breen asked Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack why … Continue reading Major route missed in government’s half-price flights ‘because that’s the way it is’