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

The Australian people know that we made the best possible decisions in a set of very difficult circumstances to provide transitional support to keep as many businesses in business and as many Australians in jobs as possible and to provide enhanced support to those Australians who, through no fault of their own, lost their job. That is indeed what we've done. It was always clear that this would be a temporary arrangement, and the Australian people would expect us to help facilitate the strongest possible recovery as soon as possible so that all Australians have the best possible opportunity to get ahead. If they cannot continue in the job that they had before COVID, in the current business that they work for, then we've got to make sure we create the conditions where they can find a new and better job in another business.