Senate debates

Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Bills

Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Jobkeeper Payments) Amendment Bill 2020; In Committee

1:22 pm

Photo of Jacqui LambieJacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

Given that we have no vaccine and this COVID-19 pandemic could go on for another year, two years or three years and given that you're talking about taxpayers' money that's probably being rorted into dividends, are you going to get anyone from one of the departments to at least have to look at it? It may go on for years, and you're talking about the economy and the dark contrast that it's sitting in, but are we just going to leave this sitting on the side? I don't want to come back here in two years and say, 'We had this conversation two years ago and we're still in the same situation.' It's rorting into the dividends, and, quite frankly, it is ethically wrong.

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