{"id":12226,"date":"2021-07-22T01:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T01:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2021-07-22T01:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T01:02:52","slug":"jobkeeper-2-0-calls-catching-on-morrison-reluctance-putting-nation-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/jobkeeper-2-0-calls-catching-on-morrison-reluctance-putting-nation-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"JobKeeper 2.0 calls catching on, Morrison reluctance putting nation at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the need to reestablish a large-scale JobKeeper becomes increasingly obvious, the Greens say the same coalition that dragged the Prime Minister over the line the first time can do it again.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Leader, Adam Bandt said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201c13 million people are under lockdown but Scott Morrison is fiddling with makeshift support packages rather than simply reintroducing a previously successful, well-understood JobKeeper scheme.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government resisted JobKeeper last year, and we saw Depression-era dole queues. The Greens were the first party to call for wage guarantees, Labor joined us and ultimately the government was dragged kicking and screaming to JobKeeper.<br \/>\n\u201cCruel austerity is the default for this government and they\u2019re resisting JobKeeper yet again, but without JobKeeper and a lifted JobSeeker people will fall through the cracks and Australia\u2019s success against Covid is at risk.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen people don\u2019t have adequate support, they are forced into making potentially risky decisions. This was a clear lesson from last year\u2019s Melbourne outbreak.<br \/>\n\u201cJobKeeper and a lifted JobSeeker were needed last year, and they\u2019re needed again now.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Family and Community Services Spokesperson, Senator Rachel Siewert said:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison Government\u2019s double standards have to stop. People on income support payments who are in lockdown urgently need access to the $600 per week Covid-19 Disaster Payments.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI am appalled that this Government is once again leaving unemployed people, students, single parents, disabled people and carers behind.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Government\u2019s decision to stop people on income support payments from accessing the Covid-19 Disaster Payments is adding to the significant amounts of stress people in lockdown are experiencing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the need to reestablish a large-scale JobKeeper becomes increasingly obvious, the Greens say the same coalition that dragged the Prime Minister over the line the first time can do it again. Greens Leader, Adam Bandt said: \u201c13 million people are under lockdown but Scott Morrison is fiddling with makeshift support packages rather than simply &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/jobkeeper-2-0-calls-catching-on-morrison-reluctance-putting-nation-at-risk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JobKeeper 2.0 calls catching on, Morrison reluctance putting nation at risk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}