House debates

Thursday, 3 September 2020

Questions without Notice

JobKeeper Payment

2:15 pm

Photo of Josh FrydenbergJosh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The reality is JobKeeper is a remarkable program. They're not my words; they're the words of the Governor of the Reserve Bank. Today it's supporting more than 3½ million Australian workers and around one million Australian businesses. It was established based on being a temporary program, a targeted program, a scalable program and one that could flex depending on the demand. It's the expectation from Treasury—

Dr Chalmers interjecting

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