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Chief economist update: Gone fishing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on August 14, he offered a different prescription. "Give man a fish" - JobKeeper, JobSeeker, Backing Business Initiative, HomeBuilder initiative - "and you feed him for a day" (these schemes have limited ...

ERS scheme referred to Auditor-General

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... false declarations and withdrawals, tax liabilities on fund withdrawals and disqualification form income support such as JobSeeker." Jones claims government ministers and senior public servants have acknowledge many of his cited failings, but said they ...

Government introduces pandemic payment

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... workers in Victoria that do not have sick leave left or are not receiving payments through the existing JobKeeper or JobSeeker. The disaster payments come after Victoria was placed in a stage four lockdown that will see thousands of non-essential workers ...

Financial comfort reliant on fiscal support: ME Bank

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... comfort to a combination of prudent financial actions by households in response to the pandemic as well as JobKeeper, JobSeeker and the Early Release of Super scheme. Almost all 11 measures that make up the Household Financial Comfort Index improved ...

JobKeeper, JobSeeker to be extended

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... March 2021 and has been reduced to $1200 per fortnight, down from $1500, and restructured into a two-tier system. The JobSeeker program will also be extended at a lower rate and until December, when it will be revised again. However, the Prime Minister ...

Chief economist update: Haste makes Budget waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... part-time and casual workers who received more from JobKeeper than their previous wage. The government will also extend its JobSeeker unemployment benefit beyond September. The payment will be lowered from the current A$1115 a fortnight but will still ...

Stimulus stutters amid record unemployment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
The government's announcement of the new JobTrainer package was met with calls to extend the existing JobSeeker and JobKeeper measures as devastating unemployment numbers were released. Unemployment has now hit 7.4%, the highest it has been in two decades ...

Chief economist update: Stop right now, thank you very much

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
"The Australian economy is fighting back." Prime Minister Scott Morrison's declaration referring to the bounce back in the Australian labour market wouldn't have rung hollow had it not been for the second wave in Victoria - the country's ...

Super reform should happen, but not now: Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... Daley said. "Not dealing with the crisis would be the biggest waste of all." Currently the government's JobKeeper and JobSeeker scheme are scheduled to roll off towards the end of September. Daley said some emergency measures enacted to respond to COVID-19 ...

At least $70bn more in stimulus needed: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... recommendations will cost $7 billion in 2020-21 and $14 billion in the year after that. Grattan is recommending: increasing the JobSeeker unemployment payment by at least $100 per week from April 2021 ($2 billion plus and $8 billion plus over the two ...