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how the government plans to get coronavirus support into our hands quickly

Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

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The government says its second stimulus package – the second in ten days – is temporary and targeted, but that’s not really true.

What it is is big, automatic, and infinitely increasable.

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