Labor leader AlboMP says the government’s $130 billion JobKeeper scheme is “good legislation and will make a difference to people’s lives” but “is a bill that will saddle a generation”.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese says the government’s $130 billion JobKeeper scheme is “good legislation and will make a difference to people’s lives” but “is a bill that will saddle a generation”. Mr Albanese told Parliament on Wednesday Australia was “headed for a trillion-dollar debt” and therefore “Labor has a responsibility to be constructive and to make sure the government gets it right”. “The scale of this expenditure that we will consider today is without equal in our nation's history.
The Labor leader said the government’s wage subsidy was vital to minimize unemployment and ensure the country could “transition from this economic downturn as quickly and strongly as possible”. “I congratulate the government on changing its view of wage subsidy, and I recognize that many of the measures being advanced by this government to intervene in this economy stand in direct contravention of their rhetorical position over many years,” he said.
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