All Clear for the $900 Stimulus Payments

The High Court Of Australia rejected a legal challenge to the government's proposed fiscal stimulus package, clearing the way for cash payments to begin. Bryan Pape, a former lawyer and university lecturer, had argued in the High Court in Canberra that plans by the government to roll out one-off cash bonuses of up to $900 each to Australian taxpayers is in breach of the constitution. The court ruled the payment of the tax bonus under the Bonus Act is "a valid law of the Commonwealth."

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