#Jobkeeper

A short thread about creatives applying for Jobkeeper payments:Here's the situation with Jobkeeper, for those of you who might have been saying/thinking 'oh, those silly artists, why don't they just

Kristina Keneally

.@PeterDutton_MP told @2GB873 yesterday that “there will be an element of fraud” in JobKeeper, and Govt has created a Taskforce with AFP, Services Australia and Centrelink to investigate this fraud,

An update on JobKeeper: pre-revenue startups may be eligible after all. Here's the relevant bit of the (updated) advice (thread): "The Tax Commissioner will also have discretion to set out

Steven Hamilton

Government debt is issued at a fixed, not floating, interest rate. The government can lock in every dollar of stimulus today at an interest rate of 1.49% for the next

Kristina Keneally

Last year I visited a cafe in South Australia run by people on temporary protection visas (SHEVs). They employ Australian citizens. How does JobKeeper affect businesses like theirs? Under questioning

This has the potential to turn into an absolute dumpster fire of unnecessary litigation if the govt doesn’t take steps to address this now 1/12https://twitter.com/ak_pennington/status/1266918607318999040 The article suggests that employer

TimeTravel w/ #NightTerrace

2020 was supposed to be the year i finally found a balance between being an artist and paying rent. I had 6 different income streams, so here's how the package

Steven Hamilton

I have a piece out in the @smh and @theage on JobKeeper given reports the government may wind it up early. It’s not clear it’s feasible or advisable to unscramble

Still waiting for an answer to this: how could clerical errors made by 0.1% of JobKeeper businesses ruin cost projections made weeks earlier? And how could the projected cost of

Imagine Labor had won the last Federal election. Then imagine:That we had the most intense bushfires in our recorded history and the PM went on holiday to Hawaii (1/10) That

It's the last week for artists and cultural organisations to apply for the @AusCouncilArts Resilience fund. The entire industry has been seeking support from the same meagre $5m of repurposed

A lot of talk about hospo at the moment, and I wanted to share the weird feeling a lot of us had about the pandemic and jobkeeper stuff. Staff actually

Stephen Koukoulas

Please note - not 1 cent of the Jobseeker payments have hit anyone's bank account yet. Slow & tied up in red tape #4Corners * $130 billion Jobkeeper

PM #ScottMorrison is really struggling to exhibit any genuine empathy during this press conference. Utterly insincere when he says "It's a tough day. A tough day for Australians." And the

Andrew Stafford

SOLE TRADERS - important update. Via @waltonkate and @maevemarsden a glitch has emerged which seems to be catching many out - short threadhttps://twitter.com/staffo_sez/status/1252124793396097024 Here is the tweet from @waltonkate that

FFS pollies saying we need to "get back to work", "hiding under the doona", "enjoying the Jobkeeper/Jobseeker lifestyle". Meanwhile, your lot pulled the pin at the first sign of trouble,