(My bolding).
Why so? The figures would seem to support that NZ will be the country that is, and will be, more effected by the tourism drop-off in terms of % employment and income.
Tourism is very important to NZ. and is more important to New Zealand than Australia. This will be one reason why their PM was recently promoting 4 day working week in NZ to boost tourism. It is also what there is a strong push in NZ to open the border to Australia.
229,566 people were directly employed in tourism (8.4 percent of the total number of people employed in New Zealand)
4.7% of the New Zealand population.
666,000 Australians were directly employed by tourism, 5% of Australia’s workforce
2.7 % of the Australian population.
So the point you raised on tourism would seem to be the reverse and you seem to be overestimating the relative hit of tourism on the Australian economy compared to NZ.
As things reactivate NZ will be more affected by the international drop off in revenue than Australia. Their export earnings from Tourism are more important to them than it is to Australia.
Tourism is New Zealand's biggest export industry, contributing 20.4% of total exports. Tourism generates a direct annual contribution to GDP of $16.2 billion, or 5.8%, and a further indirect contribution of $11.2 billion, another 4% of New Zealand's total GDP.
From 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 Tourism was Australia's fourth largest exporting industry, accounting for 8.2% of Australia’s exports earnings.
666,000 Australians were directly employed by tourism, 5% of Australia’s workforce