It isn’t available to the bulk of the unemployed, it isn’t available to people who’ve been on JobKeeper rather than JobSeeker, and employers can overclaim.
- Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
Josh Frydenberg has told us his 2020 Budget is “all about jobs”. What he hasn’t said is that it is actually aiming for a slower recovery from the recession, as far as unemployment goes, than from most…
Easing off when the unemployment rate is 6% would leave us worse off than we’ve been in decades.
Unless we get unemployment down quickly young Australians will wear the scars of the recession for a decade.
The federal government must provide more support if Victorian businesses and households are to survive the state’s Stage 4 lockdown.
Without spending the money Australia will have a much higher rate of unemployment than it needs for a very long time, new Grattan Institute calculations find.
Grattan institute estimates suggest that up to 26% of the workforce – 3.4 million Australians – are likely be thrown out of work as a direct result of the shutdown.
An examination of 80,000 enterprise bargaining agreements finds that on average 80% of each increase in compulsory super has been at the expense of wages.
Australia spends virtually the same on schools as the Estonian government, once wage differences are taken into account.
The Stage 3 cuts would make Australia’s income tax system the least progressive in 60 years.
All Australians should have access to subsidised dental care, not just pensioners and children.
After some years the Coalition’s proposals would cost $40 billion per year more than Labor’s, but by then Labor will have probably cut tax further too.
Should the Coalition’s $300 billion of tax cuts ever be enacted, they would push the budget back towards deficit.
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