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Stimulus under scrutiny

Australia's coronavirus support packages were designed and rolled out at speed. Do they really do their job? We delve beneath the headline figures

  • Covid-19 samples prepared for testing

    Coalition gave private pathology companies lucrative Covid contracts

    Government has shielded closed collection centres from takeover and provides big subsidy increases after industry lobbying
  • Melbourne’s Young and Jackson’s hotel on the corner of Flinders Street and Swanston Street in the CBD as it remains closed due to Covid-19 restrictions.

    'We've kicked the can down the road': Australian businesses brace for slow recovery

    In part four of Stimulus under scrutiny, we look at the support provided directly to small and medium business and what will happen when it ends
  • Tina Case, who runs a small family day care service in Woy Woy. Case says the government’s childcare support package has actually left her worse off.

    'The hardest time in my life': how service providers shoulder the burden of free childcare

    In part three of Stimulus under scrutiny, we look at why the government’s childcare recovery package has sent some operators to the brink of collapse
  • man teaching woman to build brick wall

    Work in progress: a $60bn miscalculation could make jobkeeper fairer and lead to quicker recovery

    In part two of our special investigation, we look at whether the Morrison government’s centrepiece employment programs are doing their job
  • A man at a cliff edge in outback Australia

    'The cliff': what happens when Australia's coronavirus stimulus runs out of road?

    Special investigation: In the first of a new series examining the impact of the federal government’s recovery spending, economists urge the Coalition to outline what it is planning after September
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