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Unfortunately, that’s turned out to be the truth. We have seen throughout this process the government’s been in too big a rush to cut JobKeeper and not in enough of a rush to get people vaccinated. The consequences is the government coming back with another package of support today.

We need to see a guarantee that people will keep their jobs. If this package doesn’t guarantee that people will keep their jobs, then it won’t be worth all of the spin and all of the announcement that we see later today.

What we need to see from the government is a genuine package that supports workers and small businesses. That guarantees that that link will be maintained between employer and employee. That was the most part of JobKeeper. And we don’t want to see that discarded. So let’s see what the government announces later today.