One quarter of workers swamp myGov in 20 hours

Thursday 26 March 2020

Australia’s Minister for Government Services, Stuart Robert, has confirmed that an extraordinary 3.2 million Australians attempted to login to myGov in only 20 hours:

We have facilitated 3.2 million logins to myGov over the past 20 hours.

This is just extraordinary demand.

We will continue to run this service 24/7 and progressively increase its capacity as we have over recent days & months.

— Stuart Robert MP (@stuartrobertmp) March 24, 2020

To put that number into perspective, there were 13 million Australians employed in February.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.