Wage subsidy not a 'cut and paste' job: PM

By Colin Brinsden
Updated March 29 2020 - 1:53pm, first published 1:49pm
The government may pay workers' wages in a bid to prevent companies laying off more people.
The government may pay workers' wages in a bid to prevent companies laying off more people.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended not rushing into a wage subsidy plan to help employers and their staff during the coronavirus crisis, saying it is not a case of "cutting and pasting" what other countries might be doing.

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