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The GFC provided the secret sauce we used to ward off the COVID recession

By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

We got an awful lot right during the COVID crisis — an awful lot that we couldn’t have got right just a few years earlier.

Which is another way of saying we were incredibly lucky.

Had COVID attacked during the 1980s there would have been no way to make a messenger RNA vaccine, not even for animals.

The national broadband network wouldn’t have been thought of. It wasn’t complete until 2020.…

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