Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Firstly, outside of the parliament, on the Liberal-National side of the parliament individual members of parliament are entitled to express their views on policy issues. We think it's a very important part of the democratic debate, and it helps ensure that we get a better outcome by going through proper process. In relation to the JobKeeper program, the government's position, as it always has been, is that it is a substantial program providing support, as we speak, to more than 5.5 million working Australians and helping to keep them connected to their employers. That has been a very good thing and it has been extremely well received by people right around Australia.

We've always said that there would be a review at the midpoint, and Treasury will be conducting that review, and reporting that review in June. It is six weeks into a six-month program and we are committed to the program for six months.