JobKeeper was the centrepiece of the Morrison government’s massive fiscal support during the pandemic, and often the most controversial. Now an independent evaluation of the $89 billion wage subsidy and income support scheme by former senior Treasury official Nigel Ray has concluded that it worked in its core objective of reviving precious economic confidence at a moment when there was almost none to be had.
Federation Square sits deserted during Melbourne’s second-wave lockdown in August 2020. Joe Armao
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