JobKeeper was a big call to make. They got it right
Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg announced JobKeeper three years ago today. For all its flaws, it produced one of the world’s most durable recoveries.
Thursday marks three years since then-treasurer Josh Frydenberg and then-prime minister Scott Morrison announced JobKeeper, the single-largest spending program in Australian history.
The culmination of a series of three announcements of rapidly escalating economic supports between March 12 and March 30, 2020, JobKeeper would prove hugely consequential for millions of Australians – though not without its detractors.
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Steven Hamilton is assistant professor of economics at George Washington University and visiting fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU.
