The Politics of Envy
Alan Moir
In September, the Australian Tax Office announced a decision to let companies who’d made ‘honest mistakes’ keep $180 million in JobKeeper payments. Alan Moir’s cartoon compares this to Services Australia’s admission, a few weeks earlier, that it was sending debt notices to 11,771 welfare recipients for pandemic-related overpayments.
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