'Cruel' cuts to JobSeeker, JobKeeper to hurt 10,000s of Canberrans

Harley Dennett
January 5 2021 - 4:30am
Tens of thousands of people are still unemployed in the ACT. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Tens of thousands of people are still unemployed in the ACT. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Around 28,000 Canberrans already on the brink were being pushed into further financial destitution, the ACT Council of Society Services has warned.

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Harley Dennett

Harley Dennett

Public Service Editor

Former federal politics bureau chief for the Canberra Times, via a career that's taken me from rural Victoria to Washington DC. Telling the stories of my local LGBTI community brought me to political journalism, where I've covered eight budgets, four national elections in two countries, Defence, public service and international governance.

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