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

I thank the member for Fenner for his question. On 25 March this year, I did an interview on ABC radio, and I said the following:

… I would welcome Gerry Harvey or any other major company that's in the position to repay their JobKeeper payments back. I would welcome that.

That is what I said in March of this year. Let me remind the House of another quote:

We've made it really clear for some time now that JobKeeper - which has been doing a lot of good in the economy, it's the reason that we proposed it in the first place …

That was said this year. Who said that? Who said it was doing a lot of good and they proposed it in the first place? It was the member for Rankin. Only the Labor Party could say that they invented a program that they are now criticising.

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