Kristina Keneally (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The confusion arises, Minister, because your government has said that safe haven enterprise visa holders and temporary protection visa holders are not eligible for JobKeeper payments as employees, so there does seem to be a very interesting inconsistency here. A person on a temporary protection visa, either a TPV or a SHEV, who has a business that employs Australians, as this one business I went to in Adelaide does, can register for JobKeeper and ensure that its Australian citizen employees are able to get JobKeeper payments, but if those same temporary visa holders are employees, they are not eligible to receive JobKeeper payments—is that correct?