Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

On the matter that was raised in the question, the JobKeeper program saved 700,000 jobs. And they won't put it in the question that that's what they're referring to. They'll sneakily not mention that what they're referring to is the JobKeeper program, that saved 700,000 jobs at a time when the Australian people were looking into the abyss of a pandemic nobody understood or had any idea about what would occur, this government stood up and we put JobKeeper in place. And the very next morning, when hundreds of thousands of Australians were going to lose their jobs and not know how they were going to put food on the table for their families, and businesses who had worked for decades to put their businesses in place were fearing that their businesses were going to fall over, this government stood up. This government stood up with the single-largest income support program—

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