Opinion

Maintaining JobKeeper beyond the health crisis would be a serious mistake

Simon Cowan
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:16am, first published May 23 2020 - 4:30am
Once the public health challenge is in hand, delaying the inevitable correction will not make it any easier to deal with. Picture: Shutterstock
Once the public health challenge is in hand, delaying the inevitable correction will not make it any easier to deal with. Picture: Shutterstock

The government is wrong if it thought the pressure might die down a little bit now the bushfire crisis has been put out, and the daily increase in coronavirus cases has shrunk to single figures.

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Simon Cowan

Simon Cowan

Canberra Times columnist

Simon Cowan is research director at the Centre for Independent Studies and a regular columnist for The Canberra Times.

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