Brendan Coates

Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute

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You can forget about a snapback for Australia

By Brendan Coates | 19 October 2020

Josh Frydenberg has told us his 2020 Budget is “all about jobs”. What he hasn’t said is that it is actually aiming for a slower recovery from the recession, as far as unemployment goes, than from most recessions in Australia’s history, writes Brendan Coates, Household Finance Director at Grattan Institute. That’s both the budget’s explicit…