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to the former prime minister and his treasurer for JobKeeper is welcome but somewhat misguided. Every advanced economy in the world, beginning with Germany, had a form of JobKeeper.
The Coalition paid out $40 billion to entities that were not eligible including $368 million to businesses that increased turnover by more than 200 per cent during the qualifying period. And there was no mechanism to check if businesses did experience their forecast downturns, or to discover what happened to the money.Again it is argued that the architects of JobKeeper in the previous government “got it right”. They didn’t.
True, Peter Dutton and his allies in the Coalition have written themselves out of the national debate on the issue. So what? Could it be that the detail Dutton is looking for is confirmation of the fears held by Liberal Party and Nationals members that an Indigenous Voice to parliament threatens the free and unbridled access to wealth creation by a 21st-century squattocracy of mining and grazing interests in Australian territories and states?I refer to Jennifer Hewett’s “” . What’s complicated? You can’t turn the gas off until you have something to replace it.
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