JobKeeper is no substitute for job creating policies

Good parents tell their children, “money does not grow on trees”. Unfortunately, some people did not get the memo and reached adulthood assuming the government functions like a pushover of a parent. ACTU secretary Sally McManus is calling for wage subsidies to continue for as long as COVID-19 remains an issue. But even the government cannot keep printing money while the economy barely coasts along. 

Unions calculate fair wages based on what a worker would like to earn to subsidise a certain lifestyle. For most of us, there is no upper limit on what we would like to make. Even now the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is asking for fewer hours and a minimum wage of $119,000. The average wage in Australia is only