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The AFR’s Michael Roddan pulled up an interesting quote from Josh Frydenberg in 2011 attacking the Labor Government’s GFC stimulus for having “fostered a culture of expectation with their lavish handouts from pink batts to school halls, from computers in schools to set-top boxes”.
Fast forward a decade and Josh Frydenberg as Treasurer is vehemently trying to prevent the public from knowing which companies received the $90 billion JobKeeper wage subsidy – the biggest corporate welfare program in the nation’s history.
On Tuesday, Frydenberg exhorted “you cannot trust the Labor Party” following its bid to make public the recipients of the JobKeeper scheme:
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About the author
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.
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