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

What modelling have you done on whether small businesses can afford to do this, considering JobKeeper will be finishing at the end of March? Where's your modelling on how all these are going to combine with each other—with what you're doing now and then throwing this on top? Do you still think your numbers are going to come out the same? People will be finishing JobKeeper at the end of March. You're saying, 'Here's an extra $200.' I don't know where you've been, Minister, but for small businesses in Tasmania, I can tell you now, to give them those hours and give them that $200—they can hardly afford a PO box, let alone putting on extra people. So has the stopping JobKeeper been taken into the equation? How many small businesses have you actually been out there to speak to about this, to come up with this solution?