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One Nation has sided with the Morrison Government, voting down the Senate’s bill requiring firms with more than $10 million in turnover to disclose their JobKeeper subsidies:
In the Senate, independent senator Rex Patrick moved an amendment to… require the Australian Taxation Office to reveal companies with annual turnover of more than $10m that received jobkeeper.
As the amendment was supported by Labor, the Greens and the crossbench, One Nation held the casting vote – and Patrick claimed leader Pauline Hanson had indicated she intended to support it.
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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.