The AFR’s Joe Aston has continued his full fledged assault against the Morrison Government’s JobKeeper waste, which saw more than 150,000 companies that weren’t in trouble – many of them actually thriving – receive $13 billion worth of subsidies from taxpayers.
On 12 September, Aston highlighted Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s hypocrisy and contradictions in defending these ‘overpayments’ in a 1400-word opinion piece in The Australian:
“New Treasury analysis has found that in the June [2020] quarter … the actual median decline in turnover for JobKeeper recipients was 28 per cent,” he wrote…
