Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has delivered the Labor Government’s first Federal Budget since being elected earlier this year. This article outlines the key measures contained within including low-cost housing, childcare spending and pharmaceutical price relief, and discusses the major winners and losers. – Federal Budget Summary October 2022.
The highly infectious Delta COVID variant is triggering lock-downs across the country. We look at what help is available and how you can get it.
Super Retail Group – owner of the Supercheap Auto, Rebel, BCF and Macpac brands – handed back $1.7 million in JobKeeper payments in January after releasing a trading update showing sales growth of 23% to December 2020. Toyota announced that it will return $18 million in JobKeeper payments after a record fourth quarter. And, Domino’s Pizza has also handed back $792,000 of JobKeeper payments.
We’ve had quite a few questions about the JobMaker hiring credit announced in the 2020-21 Federal Budget. The legislation enabling the JobMaker scheme has not passed Parliament as yet and until this occurs, the JobMaker rules are not certain and may change. More details should be available soon and we’ll let you know as soon as we have some certainty.
The Government has stepped in to prevent a wave of insolvencies when the COVID-19 support measures run their course in December 2020.