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Australia will gamble on an unprecedented $189 billion stimulus package to protect the nation from a looming recession, including cash payments of up to $100,000 for small businesses, unsecured loans, wage subsidies and new welfare payments for the unemployed.
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Welfare recipients including Newstart recipients, pensioners and households accessing family tax benefits will be handed a one-off $750 stimulus payment as part of a $17.6 billion federal bid to ensure the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t “bury the budget for a decade”.
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Nationals backbencher David Gillespie has dismissed damning evidence about a sports grants scheme as a mere “technicality”.
Scott Morrison has farewelled Bridget McKenzie over a conflict of interest, but the PM does not explain why the government believes she had legal authority to spend any of the $100 million in the sports rorts affair, argues Michael Jacobs.
Bushfires and sports rorts have delivered a nightmare summer break for the Morrison Government, which is about to return to Parliament anything but refreshed, says Michelle Grattan.
Scott Morrison will use his first major 2020 speech to press his plan for more federal government power to intervene directly when there are natural disasters, including by deploying the defence force without requests from the states.
