Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I note the minister avoids answering the question. My supplementary question is: Save Victorian Events, a group advocating for Victoria's $10 billion a year events industry, performed a survey earlier this month that found that if JobKeeper were to end in March, 43 per cent of companies surveyed would need to let staff go and an additional 40 per cent would potentially need to close their businesses. How many of the 493,000 businesses accessing JobKeeper will fold due to this government withdrawing support prematurely?