Backpacker tax: Hunter backpackers, industry welcome certainty as government strikes deal

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Updated December 2 2016 - 11:38am, first published December 1 2016 - 8:00pm
LOVING NEWCASTLE: Backpackers Tom Conway, of Ireland, and Pia Moellendorf, of Germany, kicking back in Pacific Park on Thursday. Picture: Brodie Owen
LOVING NEWCASTLE: Backpackers Tom Conway, of Ireland, and Pia Moellendorf, of Germany, kicking back in Pacific Park on Thursday. Picture: Brodie Owen

THEY didn't know it – but Germany's Pia Moellendorf and Ireland's Tom Conway were in Malcolm Turnbull's sights on Thursday when a political volley was swung their way on national radio.

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Brodie Owen is a police reporter for the Newcastle Herald.

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