Senate Select Committee

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has defended the government’s JobKeeper scheme amid calls for him to appear before the senate committee overseeing the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Australia has “gone well past the word recession” but it has handled the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic well, according to Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy.

US company Amazon Web Services has been paid more than $700,000 to manage the app’s central data store. The information is being stored in AWS servers in Australia.

Australia’s top bureaucrats will not be free from scrutiny as a new Senate Select Committee prepares to examine the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Labor senator Katy Gallagher has warned.

The Select Committee on COVID-19 will have broad terms of reference to allow for a thorough probe of the government’s response to the pandemic, and will present its final report on the inquiry by June 30 2022.

Who broke the NSW Health code of conduct? The Local Health District CEO who told executives not to assist a Senate inquiry? Or the local doctor — and former chair of the board — who forwarded his email to the committee?