Coronavirus Australia: Mathias Cormann says Coalition can change jobkeeper 'if facts change'

Australia's finance minister indicates openness to more economic support and explicitly backs state border closures for first time

Australia's finance minister has kept the door open to making further changes to economic support measures such as the jobkeeper wage subsidy, saying the government would act if facts change".

Mathias Cormann foreshadowed the Coalition's openness to further changes in an interview on Sunday, during which the senior minister from Western Australia also declared that the federal government now supported the border restrictions imposed by numerous states, including WA.