If business is paying back JobKeeper windfalls, what about the bureaucrats and their bonuses?

JobKeeper. JobSeeker. Job destroyer.

Well, the mob has spoken. 

Those businesses who legally and correctly accessed the Job keeper scheme, but who in hindsight did not need them are being pressured to return the money — the latest being Nick Scali who will repay $3.6 million of Job Keeper funds received. Fair enough.

And to be fair, the National Audit Office will investigate “whether the Australian Taxation Office has put in place “effective measures to protect the integrity of Jobkeeper payments”.

Fair and just. 

But here is another matter for the National Audit Office to investigate. Will Commonwealth government public servants, the senior executives who get bonuses, particularly those that designed this scheme…