Legislation to enact new COVID-19 financial support payments for workers and businesses will go back before the Senate on 9 August.
Independent senator Rex Patrick had amended the government’s original legislation so that details of big businesses who had received JobKeeper or who will get payments under the new scheme would be made public.
However, the federal government rejected the amendment when the bill went before the House of Representatives. Labor supported Patrick’s original amendment, but is declining to state if it will support it again when it goes back to the Senate.
