Prime Minister Scott Morrison has praised the Super Retail Group’s decision to voluntarily return $1.7 million worth of JobKeeper subsidies after posting a record half-year profit. The move by Super Retail, which owns Supercheap Auto, Rebel Sports, BCF, and Macpac, was made public by the company in its trading update (pdf) on Jan 18, after it posted profits of over $170 million during the first half of the 2021 financial year. It also comes only one week after Toyota announced it would return $18 million in Jobkeeper payments following an unexpectedly strong sales result for 2020. Speaking to 2GB radio on Wednesday Morrison said that this demonstrates that Australians know when they need financial support, but that they will not take advantage of it. “We can’t run the Australian economy on government money forever,” Morrison said. “We’ve had to step in at a very serious time, but we have done that …
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