Should the government put a line under the $60 billion figure that represents the amount Treasury officials over-estimated would be needed to provide support to up to six million workers and simply say enough is enough?

Should the government go the whole Monty and spend an amount it was previously prepared to provide to help more Australians bridge the divide between where they are now and where they want to be when we all come through the pandemic?

Or should the government look at a range of measures designed to help ease the economy back to health, to wean millions of Australians off the JobKeeper and JobSeeker incentives, while at the same time undertaking an analysis of the economy to see where aid can be best directed?

The risk we run in simply closing the books on the $60 billion originally allocated is that we fail to recognise the need for support does not necessarily dissipate in line with the easing of restrictions.

The very act of removing support could result in tens of thousands of businesses capitulating, sending even more workers onto unemployment queues.

Australians need to accept that the original $130 billion JobKeeper program was hatched in an environment that meant speed was of the essence and in the prevailing unprecedented times, it's a good thing we don't need to spend all this money, right now.

But we have the time now to review how support has been delivered so far, where it might be needed in the future, and how much will be needed.

This way some of the inherit faults of JobKeeper can be ironed out in the process of tapering support.

The original rush to provide assistance was at the time hailed as a great achievement.

The opportunity now exists for what comes next to make it an even greater, and for more of us.