Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was in Melbourne last Thursday night and received a late phone call from Treasury deputy secretary Jenny Wilkinson in Canberra.
The Treasury fiscal group head had urgent news on the government's $130 billion JobKeeper wage subsidy that was rushed out eight weeks earlier in reaction to the coronavirus economic crisis.
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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
