OPINION: What is required now is calm, dispassionate, de-politicised analysis of what went right and wrong to learn the policy lessons for the next crisis.
and terminate the $540 pandemic leave disaster payments for workers who contract COVID-19 is a welcome step.
However, imagine how Labor and others may have responded if the Morrison government were still in charge and making these changes. Thankfully, the end of the last hardline health restriction did not trigger a return to the excessiveWith 40,000 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Australia last week, the level of infection is now well below the 300,000 peak of the third omicron wave at the start of 2022.
Mr Albanese can rightly say that pulling the remaining pandemic support is timely in the context of Australia’s high level of vaccination. A mix of good management and good fortune – the early closing of the international borders and this island nation’s “tyranny of distance” – also accounts for a COVID-19 death rate in Australia that isWorking against that was the bad luck of the AstraZeneca vaccine blood clot side-effect risk, which delayed getting jabs into arms. Western Australia and Queensland’s border populism arguably harmed its own peoples and businesses.
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