Jobkeeper kept them afloat during lockdown, so what happens now itâs over? Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Angus Thomson May 24, 2021 Stav Hatzipantelis, whose business supplies equipment to the events industry, has had to let staff go after the JobKeeper wage subsidies ended. Credit:JOE ARMAO Normal text size Very large text size Jobkeeper was one of the defining economic policies of Australiaâs response to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Its end in March prompted a number of warnings about the consequences for those it had sustained. In this special series