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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Michael McGowan

NSW unveils $1bn support package for businesses hit by Omicron outbreak

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet
NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s government had appealed to the commonwealth to help fund the business support package. Photograph: Damian Shaw/AAP

The New South Wales government has unveiled a $1bn support package for businesses after a summer of exploding Covid-19 infections caused by the Omicron variant.

But the scaled-down, jobsaver-style payment for small- and medium-size businesses will be capped at half of what was offered during the Delta wave of infections in 2021, after the federal government refused a request from the NSW government to split the cost of the package.

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