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Chief economist update: Australian recession - the next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... operations. What mattered big time though is Mighty Mo's rescue packages - more specifically, his JobSeeker and JobKeeper schemes and of course, the RBA's monetary policy accommodation. So much so that, while the June quarter National Accounts ...

Charities call for further stimulus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) has forecast that the country's 16,000 charities could be severely impacted when JobKeeper, and lease and loan deferrals come to an end in October. Modelling a 20% reduction in revenue, the report found that 88% of ...

Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... Australia's door. More so, after Treasury found an extra A$60 billion in its coronavirus war chest - resulting from the JobKeeper estimation error - the federal government considering re-opening the economy earlier than the July 1 deadline and the ...

APRA quashes super liquidity concerns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... you had quite a range of views from the industry about what the impact might be," Byres said. "And particularly pre-JobKeeper, where the forecasts were obviously thinking of a slightly different and more adverse scenario, and we had also asked the funds ...

IOOF to provide fee relief to adviser network

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... protecting their longer-term financial future," Mota said. "With more than 3.5 million Australians currently enrolled in the JobKeeper scheme, and more than one million on JobSeeker, many Australians have clearly found themselves under duress because ...

Blame put on businesses for JobKeeper error

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... joint statement in relation to the reporting error in the estimates of the number of employees likely to access the JobKeeper program. The enrolment forms completed by over 910,000 businesses who self-assessed as eligible under the scheme indicated that ...

Super advocate takes FSC to task over TPD tests

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... solution to a problem it knew about long before the global pandemic." The scheme is aligned with the government's JobKeeper payment, and runs until September 27. Claims must be lodged before 1 January 2021. According to O'Halloran, the September ...

Industry flocks to JobKeeper handouts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Nearly 13,500 businesses in financial services and insurance enrolled for JobKeeper payments, according to an industry-level breakdown from the Australian Taxation Office. JobKeeper enrolments crossed 835,000 businesses employing over 5.5 million workers ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... mounting on the impact of these measures ending. "We are becoming increasingly concerned about what will happen in Q4 when JobKeeper and the JobSeeker supplement, along with loan deferrals, come to an end," he said. "We estimate the stimulus, along with ...

Australia approaches fiscal cliff: UBS

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... economic blow of the COVID-19 pandemic but with end dates in sight, UBS has warned of an impending fiscal cliff. With JobKeeper and Jobseeker packages as well as debt deferrals scheduled to end, household cash flow spending would likely contract sharply ...