Hewson's View: Consequences of response to COVID-19

By John Hewson
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:58am, first published April 9 2020 - 7:00pm

There is no doubt that the Morrison government has now acted decisively in response to the pandemic COVID-19, in terms of both the health and medical challenges, and in dealing with the consequences of those responses for our economy and broader society. But, while it was the first country to identify the virus as a pandemic, it took some time to close our borders (which has been the major source of infection, so far) and to limit various activities, mostly by implementing "social distancing" policies.

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