Billions of taxpayer dollars wasted on booming business during COVID bailout | 60 Minutes Australia

There’s no such thing as free money, right? Wrong. At the start of the COVID pandemic last year, the federal government had to take urgent action to avoid economic oblivion. It came up with the JobKeeper scheme; a great success that gave struggling businesses billions of dollars to pay their workers. 700,000 jobs were saved, but more than 150,000 companies that weren’t in trouble – many of them actually thriving – still stuck their hands out and received 13 billion taxpayer dollars. They didn’t need it; it was money for nothing. What the businesses were doing wasn’t illegal and they’re allowed to keep the cash, but is it fair?

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