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JobKeeper – far worse than Pink Batts and School Halls

The new gold standard in wasteful spending

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

When the dust on Covid finally settles, we will look back at this period and wonder how the federal and state governments got so many things so wrong. Right up there will be the unproven and unjustified restrictions such as lockdowns, curfews and border closures.

But when it comes to government outlays, the wildly expensive JobKeeper will rank as the single most irresponsible and reckless spending program ever undertaken by a government.

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