Business Council of Australia CEO Jennifer Westacott says the budget is doing its job.
“It is a crisis situation that we are in. We have a million people who don’t have a job,” she said.
Ms Westacott said the role of the federal budget was to “get those people back to work” by driving business investment and economic activity. She praised the stimulus measures which targeted retraining programs and hiring incentives.
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