House debates Questions without Notice

JobKeeper Payment

Wednesday, 24 March 2021 House of Representatives

Josh Frydenberg

Josh Frydenberg Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer

3:00 pm

Again the member for Rankin selectively quoted the Secretary of the Treasury, because when the Secretary of the Treasury made that statement he did also continue to say:

This does not mean that there will be a commensurate increase in unemployment.

The Secretary of the Treasury did make a number of statements, including—and I would like to put these into the Hansard:

The relatively smooth transition from JobKeeper 1.0 to 2.0 gives us reason to believe that the effects will again be moderated by the strong economic and labour market recovery—

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

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