#Jobkeeper

Australia Council

AusCouncilArts

Adrian Collette, @AusCouncilCEO says the Australian government’s JobKeeper package and other measures provide much needed support for the arts, but significant gaps remain which must be addressed. Watch the full

Steven Hamilton

SHamiltonian

The Parliament today passed the JobKeeper program, a $1,500 per-worker subsidy with a $1,500 wage floor for firms experiencing at least a 30% revenue decline. Some (e.g., @RabeeTourky and @PitchfordRohan)

Anthony Albanese

AlboMP

Today, the Morrison Government began cutting JobSeeker. In a few days' time, they'll begin cutting JobKeeper too.2020 has already been the year from hell – and this will only make

Ingrid M

iMusing

what is Morrison talking about today? Why has the comms strategy ramped up this week? Schools again? the 4sq metre rule and 1.5 metre rule is not a requirement in

Esther Anatolitis

_esther

Treasurer @JoshFrydenberg is speaking with @PatsKarvelas now on @abcnews re the Australian Government's 60-billion-dollar, 3-million-person error on JobKeeper projections – and what justifications possibly remain for excluding 1m cas

Australia Institute

TheAusInstitute

MEDIA RELEASE: Polling Brief: Most Australians Want Government Lifeline for the Creative Industries #auspol https://www.tai.org.au/content/most-australians-want-government-lifeline-creative-industries New research from @TheAusInstitute has

Rae Cooper

Raecooper1

Very sad today that academics at our wonderful universities are having to work out whether to back @NTEUNational and VC proposals to take significant pay cuts to sandbag jobs. 1/?

Adam Samuel 🧼

theadamsamuel

PERSPECTIVE: The Aus Govt shouldn’t bail out Virgin Australia as per @richardbranson tweet. A thread. #COVID19Aus #VirginAustralia Let’s be real and let’s be a business person. Virgin is 92% owned

Emma Alberici

albericie

On #Insiders @David_Speers makes the searing observation to @JoshFrydenberg that now is exactly the worst time to be taking $14m away from National Audit Office. When government is spending eye-wateringly

Clive Palmer

CliveFPalmer

Palmer responds to Mark ‘The Menace’ McGowanPremier Mark McGowan was proving himself to be the real menace to the people of Western Australia over his unreasonable coronavirus border closure. “Mark

💧😷Queen Victoria

Vic_Rollison

Remember I’ve studied this. When a false narrative takes off (JobKeeper form was filled in wrong), there is no way to stop it. Media never climbs down and admits they

Ingrid M

iMusing

anyway, businesses entering numbers on a form AFTER the government announces total cost estimates can not retroactively explain errors in the forward estimates. So the bullshit Frydenberg is hawking about

Georgie Dent

georgiedent

Far less comforting than food is the horrible fate some gorgeous friends on our street are facing. Having rented their house for 10 years, without EVER being late, they requested

niko

negative_niko

Lifeline sent out a report just the other day saying contacts to their hotlines are way up since March this year so the actual suicide number might not be giving

timdunlop

timdunlop

Still trying to get my head around all those hagiographic stories over the last week about the changed, transformed, post-ideological Scott Morrison and team.Everyone one of those accentuate-the-positive stories is

Dan Ziffer

danziffer

EPIC THREAD: Remember the eviction ban that would 'fix' #COVID19 rental problems? It prevented a surge of tenants being booted, but started a debt-bomb set to explode in September. "The