Push to make public companies using JobKeeper

Matthew Cranston and John Kehoe

Jun 9, 2020 – 12.01am

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Treasury Secretary Steven Kennedy and Australian Taxation Office Commissioner Chris Jordan will be grilled at a Senate inquiry on Tuesday on whether recipients of Australia's biggest stimulus package - the $70 billion JobKeeper program - should be disclosed on a public register to improve transparency and accountability.

Major companies such as casino operator Star Entertainment, which has 7000 staff on the scheme, retailer Premier Investments, airlines Qantas and Virgin, car dealers AP Eagers and medical instruments Cochlear and property companies such as Lendlease and Mirvac all receive some form of JobKeeper.

Matthew Cranston was The Australian Financial Review’s United States correspondent.

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.