House debates

Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Questions without Notice

JobKeeper Payment

2:25 pm

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

In the December quarter, there were just over 1.5 million on JobKeeper. It's an assertion by the member for Rankin that there will be 1.3 million people on JobKeeper in the March quarter. We don't yet have that data. So the member for Rankin can't assert that number. What I can tell the member for Rankin is that it is Treasury's expectation and the RBA's expectation that the unemployment rate—

Opposition members interjecting

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