Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

All ministers who were at the meeting are currently grappling with the transition phase and how they will deal with the support packages that are in place and how best they can reopen their economies, support people who continue to be impacted by this pandemic through hardship, and ensure that we maintain control of the spread of the virus.

Amongst our international peers, Australia is regarded extraordinarily highly, and they were all very interested to learn that we'd made the decision that we would extend the level of additional support that we are putting in place for people who are unemployed and that, in addition, the JobKeeper payments we going to be continued until March. Canada advised that their emergency response benefit is set to end in October and their emergency wage subsidy will finish in December. New Zealand announced that their income relief payments will end in November and their wage subsidies in September. In the UK, job retention and income supports will end in October and the United States announced that all their measures were set to end on 31 December.