A significant reporting error led Treasury to dramatically revise its projections for the Morrison government's JobKeeper program. The scheme, which sees the government pay $1,500 fortnightly in affected workers' wages, was originally expected to cover around 6.5 million employees at a cost of $130 billion.
The Treasury and Australian Tax Office were forced to admit those projections were wrong and the revised estimate of the cost of the JobKeeper program is now just $70 billion which is $60 billion less than the original forecast. Unions want the payments extended to more workers, while the government says the error will mean the burden of debt can be reduced.
The 60 billion was borrowed money. It is not a wind fall. The savings are 1.2m ...getting rid of the two heads in charge.
Oops! Where did your economics degree come from?
It's not a windfall, what kind of moronic talk is that ? It's less debt, FFS !
Less borrowing
Wait, this is new money?
You do not use all your gun powder on the first shot. You need to keep some for the upcoming shots. The same idea applies to these funds as who knows what is still to come as we re-open the economy.
It doesn’t exist
FFS. IT IS NOT A WINDFALL! It is $60 BILLION we don't have to BORROW. It is a crushing debt we don't have to pass onto the next generation. It is money we DO NOT HAVE. Why is this so difficult for the media and certain politicians to understand? auspol
Pay the debt.
Bloody idiots. Don't spend it.
Invest in the military - cause you know we will need them soon ...........WW3
Gamble it on 32 black .
It isn’t really a windfall
Build a prison for all liberal and IPA members
what the stupid government is doing？
Ah, it’s government allocation of funds not real money like the rest of us, adjust budget down.
How is this a 'bungle'? You're becoming like abcnews who used the same term.
Just a typo accidental, It's not a windfall it's our taxes auspol FakeNews
Albanese meltdown.
How is it a windfall when it’s borrowed money? Only labour would/could come up with that one.
The leftists smell money and they run like hungry dogs. That is what happens in 3rd world countries. They take money for unproductive welfare that 'dilutes' the creation of wealth. We don't have the 60 billion that the leftist idiots want to spend. That is BORROWED MONEY auspol
The Gov't have delt with a 1:100 year pandemic. The AU Gov't are the management leaders. The human civil society basic fabric depends on the standard rules for existence. CONVID 19 has exercised Gov't policy & intelegence. Business largely contributes to society. Not politics
It's not a windfall - IT WOULD BE BORROWED MONEY to be paid back with interest
It is entirely debt. It's irrational and irresponsible to even consider spending it. What half baked financially illiterate moron would even recommend this.
It’s not a bloody windfall🤬it’s $60B less debt to carry🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Leave it in reserve and use it creatively as a part of redirecting our economy we all need to forget our own expectations and focus on the national interest,not self interest.This is such an exciting opportunity.
What this debate shows this Government has a leader with no Plan. No Vision ,No Interest in Job Creation. What about 60 Billion in Nation Building Projects. Show some balls you gutless pathetic politicians wake up! ScottyFromMarketing lnpnoideasparty
It's not a 'windfall'. It's simply money that we don't have to borrow and pay interest on 🤪
Just don’t spend it.
Bank it
There is only one sensible thing to do, keep it and save our great grand kids from some of the debt we are amassing
It’s not a windfall. It means less debt.
Easy. Don’t spend money we don’t have.
Let’s spend if for future generations- bc we’re entitled and privileged lot..
Why call it a windfall? It is money my kids will not have to repay.
Either spend it on nation building infrastructure that will pay itself off or don't spend it at all. saynotolabor
Put it back in the bloody bank.
Let me guess, Labor want to spend it?
For flips sake it isn’t a windfall! It’s a bit less debt we will have to repay!!!!!!!
I have $20K unused credit on my VISA. What should I do with that? JohnRuddick2 RealMarkLatham australian RitaPanahi
Spend it. At All costs. That is what any half-decent specialist government would do.
It’s not a BLOODY windfall. It’s borrowings we do not need to pay for. Stop the political bullshit and advise how much per person our kids have saved paying off.
It's not a 60 billion windfall, it is taxpayers money which will have to be repaid. Money has been mismanaged with some people on jobkeeper getting much more than they should have and others missing out. I am furious
What’s the debate for? Its borrowed money. Labor/Greens love spending money we can’t afford so it seems there’s only side debating
Labor and albo want to spend it but the government should put it back in the bank thank God labor are not in power
Albo can tell Scomo what to do with the money all he likes. He has no power over what is done with it. All labor does is spend like wounded bulls without any thought to it. There was good reason why jobkeeper wasn't offered to casuals.
Save it for another rainy day.
The 60 billion windfall is bull shit. Its money Australia has not had to borrow from Albo's mates in the Chinese Communist Party or Muslim brother hood
It's not a windfall, it's simply $60b less that the government has to borrow and pay back. It's $60b less debt. Don't spend it, don't borrow it and don't use it.
How is it a windfall? I’ll wait.
Why does the Govt HAVE to spend this?
Maybe they could lend it to Victoria at an attractive rate so Dan Andrews and Tim Pallas don’t have to go begging to China for the loan they just negotiated ?
give it back, so that we don't have to repay it.
This just highlights why we dodged a bullet twelve months ago!
It’s not a windfall 🤦🏽. It’s $60b less freekin DEBT !!!!!!
Do nothing with it.
Absolutely nothing for the moment. Borrowed money so don’t spend it.
Put it back on The line of credit owed by the Fed Gov. Reduce the intest bill. OR build some water infrastructure pipelines from Northern Australia to the Murray..so we can grow more food here economically. 🍷🍷
Labour complaining that tax payers money isn’t getting spent fast enough.
What debate? They should keep it. Donate it to medicare, to the homeless, to victims of DV, to veterans, to pensioners, to...…….. the list is endless. Whatever you all do, don't listen to the ALP.
It’s not a windfall if it’s money you don’t have. It’s just money we won’t borrow to hand out!! - my advice would be .. do nothing.
The fact that not one public servant, economist or Member from the opposition raised an eyebrow at the initial 170Bn$ is staggering.. Does no one check any of this? Clearly we ALL have absolutely NO idea what we are doing here.. Pathetic the entire lot of them!
Just don’t borrow it. Never let Albo near your credit card. He would have it maxed out in seconds auspol
Windfall,who writes these.
If the bank approved a loan for $120k for a car but the one I finally bought was only $70k, you know what I did with the rest of that loan? I didn’t borrow it! I didn’t go and buy another car or anything else. Now I don’t have to pay back that $60k
It's not a windfall, it's a saving......
you mean to report the 60B we don’t have to borrow for our grandkids to pay off, please report facts not sensationalism!
Stop misreporting ! There was an accounting error, and there is not a windfall - there is no extra money available to the government, just less taxpayer money spent than was originally projected. It’s madness to pretend that coffers have been filled FakeNewsAlert
Put it straight on the existing loan. Ffs 🤦♂️ but it’s a taxpayer problem now so they will waste it as economic slavery is their thing
To Labor it's a windfall. To many of their lifetime Newstart supporters, the corona bonus was a 'payrise'. All depends on your perspective.
Maybe someone should tell the AustralianLabor that the less you borrow the less we have to pay back. By we I mean taxpayer. So can only be dole bludgers and stay home baby factories that want Gov to spend this.
Do nothing. Then see the quiet Australians in the Centrelink line up and vote this corrupt government out next election.
Save It
How is a $60 debt a windfall?
Keep it, it's borrowed money
Sydney to Melbourne high speed rail line.
If I was in charge of the extra budgeted cash- 1. Extend the program a bit further to casuals, people in the arts etc.. 2. Keep it going for more than 6 months, but at a lower rate. 3. Save some for another lower Centrelink stimulus payment later in the year.
Albo trying to look important. Fail !
If they really want to spend it then use it to start government owned businesses as they are going to need to have an enormous amount of money coming in to get us out of the hole they put us in.
It’s not a wind fall.. it’s money not borrowed & having to be repaid with interest.
Give it to Zimbabwe
Debate is raging over what the government should do with the $60 billion dollar windfall from the JobKeeper bungle. Give it to me. I’ll look after it, no problems.
maybe get Albo a new tie
What windfall borrowed money is not a windfall it,s debt.
'Build a national facsimile network' 🇦🇺
It is not a windfall.
It’s not a windfall... it’s money the government didn’t spend that avoided bigger debt
Windfall? Really? More like a stuff up of monumental proportions.
It’s not a bloody “windfall”! I would hate any of these “journalists” doing my household budget!!
It's not a windfall, it's money that no longer has to be borrowed! Fair dinkum
Maybe some more pink batts or give the money to dead people Albo!!
For goodness sake there should no debate - this is not a windfall, this is a godsend that may save us and I repeat may save us from the most unimaginable disaster. These nincompoops like Albanese and the State Premiers seem to have no concept of where we are heading !
Not a winfall.
Pay off some bloody debt 🙄
Dreadful media.
They don't have it!
It's a dilemma. Wanna have less debt? then you have to make more money from export. Who's the biggest trade partner? CHINA...Who's best ally? USA. USA & CHINA, a 200 billion trade agreement has been made. Eat shit, Scott Morrison.
windfall, it's debt!
Garbage news from Sky. Who caused this massive stuff up? Find out. Let’s hear the result of some investigative skills and not just propaganda.
Save it for next time.
We have in Queensland 100billion times worse. We have the witch AnnastaciaMP
Not a bungle but an overestimation due to incorrect employee information, not a windfall but money we don’t need to borrow
Do nothing. It’s not a windfall ffs. Government just dodged a bullet. Money would have been p*ssed away and done nothing to avert the economic crisis that’s about to hit.
$60b for another rainy day
More sports club ‘grants’ in LibNp marginals; more money for Barrier Reef ‘research’. More grants for rice and cotton grower to concrete their water diversion schemes in arid area; even more money for private schools and more franking credits (thats borrowed $ anyway).
Obviously we can payoff the 60 bill debt we just spent 🤔
Give it to the donkey bureaucrat's that made the mistake ,so they can do it again ,steel from the next generation and no one cares .About our debt . It's a win to win ratio for globalist pretending to be nationalists .
Don’t borrow it, because that’s what it would have been, borrowed money.
Don’t spend it!
Just saved a bucket in interest payments
It reduces the amount borrowed!
Ensure women & children be protected. Put $$ into DV recovery so victims & survivors can have a chance & access legal advice. Woman with zero representation means disadvantaged & barriers for continued protection re courts.$$$abuse & coercive control implemented as law.
'Bungle' Is uncle Rupert unhappy how his government is performing? Don't think I've ever heard him use such strong language toward his minions. 🤣😂🤣
Borrowed. No windfall. No more debt.
What debate? It's 60 billion not spent. 60 billion less debt.
There is no “windfall”- we are in public debt to the tune of $1 trillion and all the money we spend to assist those struggling with Corona restrictions is borrowed money.
Leave it in the kitty for the next wave Or use it to fund critical industries here in Australia so we can make important stuff like medicines and PPE here instead of buying it from China!
Don’t borrow it.
Any sensible decision would be to borrow 60 billion less. But what would I know 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Spend it before Angus Taylor finishes devising plans to funnel millions into various family trust accounts...
Don’t borrow it
This isn’t a windfall. This money was going to be generated through debt. It just means we have to borrow less money to get the country through this period. Spending it now would just be spending for the sake of spending
I'll tell what to do with it. Absolutely nothing. People keep talking about it like we have it in the bank. It would have been borrowed money. So don't borrow it. Reduce our level of debt.
There is no windfall...honestly you guys should know this. This is all BORROWED. It just means we borrow less. Of course the communist Labor camp want welfare to get a boost with the ‘free’ cash
Well obviously Labor just went to spend it. Its in their nature.
How about not borrowing the 60 billion so our kids have a future ....
Labor squeal and bleat of the debt. But they want to make it bigger. They are a confused party that don’t know what they stand for.
It's not a windfall. However, there are many people out of work in the arts etc., that should be supported.
Yep. Just reduce the amount borrowed overall.
caymans..
It’s not a windfall. Only idiots want to spend it.
what windfall? it's borrowed. just don't borrow it now
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