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During the early stages of the pandemic there calls for the Feds to put more into Job keeper, then afterwards the calls to publish the names of all those who got it.

For charities, NGOs,  and the larger public companies, the data would be published in their annual accounts, so everyone could see who got what.

In some quarters, there was a legislative push to force the ATO to   provide the names of all the  non public and NGO orgs that  got the Job keeper allowance as well.

Robert Gotliebson in Todays Australian , in writing how that  legislation was thwarted,  by the ATO prviding to the parliament the data required but with all identifying  data redacted, provides some interesting stats on who got what.

That particular subset of citizens are most unlikely to be in the upper levels of income receipt, indeed more than likely be in the bottom quartile.

People will draw different conclusions to the above, depending on where they sit on the political spectrum.

Mick