Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

As you know, Mr Speaker, JobKeeper is at $101 billion and is the single largest economic support program that this government, or indeed any Australian government, has ever undertaken. Right now it is supporting 3½ million Australians and around one million businesses. Around the country, in every corner of this great country, there is a great story about JobKeeper and how it's keeping people in work.

We've always said, though, that the program was temporary and targeted and that there would be transition. Not just those on this side of the House have said that it should be tapered and it should come down. One person has said, 'what they should be looking at is a kind of tapering'. Somebody said this about JobKeeper:

There needs to be some transition over time away from these extraordinary levels of support in the economy.

The same person went on to say, '… which recognises that JobKeeper won't be there forever.' The same person said that the government should be considering better ways to transition the JobKeeper program. That wasn't the member for Flinders, that wasn't the member for Wannon and that wasn't the member for—

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