“The prime minister has attempted to turn the tables this week, insisting that all governments need to stick to the four-phase national plan signed off in July. While some of the state leaders have pointed out correctly that the Doherty Institute modelling informing the national plan is significantly more nuanced than Morrison’s routine public messaging suggests,...”
[Political Editor Katharine Murphy, The Guardian, 24 August 2021]“The government is pursuing 11,000 people through Centrelink debt notices based on their having received JobKeeper in the work they were doing, affecting their eligibility for the pension—people like Jan Raabe, who I spoke about in the House in the last sitting period—yet it won't allow the Australian people to know how JobKeeper was spent. Labor will fight for transparency against this cowardly government that, rather than support a transparency amendment in the Senate, has taken the bill off the Notice Paper and is running for the hills.”
[Parliament of Australia, House of Representative, Hansard, 26 August 2021, Dr Andrew LEIGH , ALP MP for Fenner]
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