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I mention NSW treasurer Dominic Perrottet’s opinion piece mostly because the federal finance minister Simon Birmingham has just been asked about it on ABC News Breakfast.
Here is his response to those repeated calls for JobKeeper to be reinstated:
The prime minister and the treasurer had lengthy discussions last night with premier Berejiklian and Mr Perrottet. And the prime minister’s maintained discussions with premier Berejiklian right through this crisis as he usually does with premiers in these circumstances.
We have, over recent days in particular, been looking at what else may be necessary as a result of the decisions we expect New South Wales would have to make. The PM will have more to say on that later today. They’re the types of things he was outlining to the New South Wales government last night.
In case anyone was wondering if NSW treasurer Dominic Perrottet was still desperately keen for the federal government to reinstate JobKeeper for lockdown greater Sydney, he has made his views abundantly clear in an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph today.
The piece lays out all the ways the federal government disaster payments fall short when compared to Jobkeeper. Here is a snippet of what he had to say:
The Disaster Payment excludes people who are receiving other forms of Commonwealth assistance. It shouldn’t...
In fact almost 200,000 people in NSW fall into that category, including 77,300 JobSeeker recipients, almost 34,000 people on Youth Allowance, and more than 4,000 Austudy and ABSTUDY recipients.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/jul/28/australia-covid-sydney-lockdown-victoria-south-australia-gladys-vaccine-berejiklian-andrews
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