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Better targeted coronavirus cash is needed to avoid worse economic contagion

20 July 2020

5:00 AM

20 July 2020

5:00 AM

Tapering — rather than topping up — income support is key to sustainably and compassionately backing Australia’s vulnerable households and firms.

The defining challenge facing policymakers through the course of the pandemic will surely be the troika of averting the dreaded employment cliff, keeping the economy afloat, and maintaining social cohesion.

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