Coronavirus: Stimulus defended as unemployment rate climbs

Steve Evans
Updated April 3 2020 - 7:05am, first published 12:30am
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced childcare would be free for working parents. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced childcare would be free for working parents. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Unemployment is forecast to jump to 9 per cent of the workforce around the middle of the year, according to analysis by Westpac's economists.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

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Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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