'I take responsibility for this': Treasurer accepts blame for $60b bungle

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The government has no plans to use the extra $60 billion to extend the JobKeeper program. 9News

"We recognise there are some sectors like tourism that are going to do it tough for quite a while because the international borders will remain closed for quite a while.

"And National Cabinet, as you know, agreed to three stages of lifting those restrictions and it's estimated some 850,000 people will be back in a job as a result of those restrictions being lifted. That's going to be great news for the economy."In an opinion piece for The Australian today, Mr Frydenberg called the bungle "regrettable".

He said Treasury massively overestimated the number of people who would need JobKeeper because in March, it assumed the health crisis would be much worse and the economic implications would be more dramatic."Ultimately, I have to take responsibilities for those things," Mr Morrison said.Meantime, Labor wants Mr Frydenberg to front a Senate inquiry over the issue.

"When you've got a budget blunder of this size, I reckon it's about time you fronted up and explained it."

 

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Time for a clean up

Criminals and liars

At this point they (left&right) are all criminals engaged in destroying the economy in preparation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution for the money power. Fraudenberg even faked a covid cough. Criminals and liars. We want a peoples bank. We need infrastructure.

1st time I've heard a 60 billion saving called a 'black hole'...

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