cartwright
Brownlow Medallist
So it’s about taxpayers money... but not the taxpayers money that Ruston gets.
Yep... it’s definitely not about tax payers money when it’s robodebt or buying $3m worth of land for $30million.
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So it’s about taxpayers money... but not the taxpayers money that Ruston gets.
I think the Coalition has looked at their internal polling and made a calculated decision that the community outrage over this, and the ranks of unemployed Australians, won't be big enough to cost them seats.There's going to be a lot of idiot Liberal voting sheep on JobKeeper who will be getting an ugly surprise at the art of April.
In case you missed it, your fed govt on why they get $280 a day and Newstart is $300 a week
Spend some money to build accommodation for politicians at HMAS Harman in Canberra. Then remove the $280 per night they claim, and inform them that they can live at HMAS Harman when they are in Canberra and be feed out of the current mess hall on base. If they don't like the accommodation and meals provided, then they can pay for other accommodation out of their own pocket.
Jobkeeper was terribly set up from the outset. I commented on this on the covid threads at the time. Should have been a month by month thing.Were JobKeeper payments supposed to flow to shareholders?
Is it fair for JobKeeper payments to flow to shareholders? Or, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggests, is it just the "politics of envy", writes Gareth Hutchens.www.abc.net.au
tl;dr
One of those companies was AP Eagers, Australia's biggest car retailing group.
It declared a profit after tax of $156 million despite experiencing historically low sales in April and May during the lockdowns.
It received JobKeeper subsidies worth $130.5 million from Australia's government, and $4 million in wage subsidies from New Zealand's government.
It said it would be paying dividends to its shareholders worth $64 million this year — including $17 million to the billionaire Nick Politis, who chairs the Sydney Roosters National Rugby League club and owns 27 per cent of the car group's shares through his company WFM Motors.
AP Eagers chief executive Martin Ward said the company wouldn't be repaying any of the $130 million in JobKeeper subsidies because he believed the money was used "for the right intentions"
campaigners.
Jobkeeper was terribly set up from the outset. I commented on this on the covid threads at the time. Should have been a month by month thing.
People expecting companies to pay it back though is laughable. Why would you? Government screws everyone over at some point, may as well make good when they fu** up and give you free money.
So many ma and pa businesses have benefited the same way.
And the idea of jobkeeper was to keep people in jobs, it did that, otherwise they didn't get the payments.
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It's an allowance. It's a way of keeping salaries lower but still paying the person in the job more. How many people receive "uniform allowance" when uniforms are supplied, etc?It's been a dodgy perk for years
Many poli's actually share houses together to keep costs extremely low and pocket the lot.
Change it to a receipt required for every cost with a per day cap, and watch everything change
And all of them do it, not just alp or libs
Do you have evidence of this?The Victorian Government incorrectly paid small businesses money and are demanding their money back!
Do you have evidence of this?
In case you missed it, your fed govt on why they get $280 a day and Newstart is $300 a week
Nope, wrong. you qualified based on one month. The other 5 months meant nothing for the first 6 months.It was. We had to submit monthly financials.
It's interesting, because the whole Mr and Mrs Potatohead just came through my field of vision and apparently that's the rage of the week, rather than this cesspool of a situation.
Call it politics of envy if you like, but this whole jobkeeper rort was f’ed on so many levels it is sickening.
Messages between Treasury officials and port operator shed light on how profitable firm got on JobKeeper
Correspondence obtained under Freedom of Information shows how port operator Qube Holdings qualified for millions in JobKeeper subsidies, despite posting profits in 2020.www.abc.net.au
tl;dr ineligible hugely profitable multi-billion company hits up the government for jobkeeper and gets a fast-track OK by running it through a profitable subsidiary which was *forecast* to reduce turnover - not actual, but forecast - but which continued to increase turnover and profit.
It's so good of them to voluntarily pay back just over half the money they effectively stole, but are keeping the rest as they have no legal obligation to do so.