Scotty from Marketing rebrands diggin’ holes and fillin’ ’em in

Monday, 1 June 2020

Direct cash grants for home renovations are expected to be a key plank of a multi-billion-dollar building stimulus package to rescue the housing construction industry and save tens of thousands of jobs.

Scott Morrison is also expected to announce $1.75bn in federal funding to the NSW government to bring forward the construction start date to this year for the Western Sydney Airport metro rail line service, with forecasts the project could create 14,000 jobs.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.