Yesterday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told the ABC that his government would not lift the permanent rate of the JobSeeker unemployment benefit when the Coronavirus supplement expires in late March:
Frydenberg said the government had made a point during the pandemic of not baking in structural spending – spending that carries on in perpetuity.
Asked about the outlook for jobseeker after March, the treasurer said “every dollar we’ve spent through this crisis is a borrowed dollar” and he noted that thus far, “we haven’t built in structural spending for the longer term”…
