The Importance of Economic Support for the Australian Economy

In March last year, there was this question of what we're going to do with the international border. And I wrote piece in the financial review that said, shut it down now. Gladys Baragiclian and Dan Andrews put their foot down,. pretty soon after that, we sealed our international border. Then we got contact tracing and testing really stood up and up to speak from a situation where we had effectively no testing and no contact tracing of COVID-19. Once cases got bigger, a lockdown gave us the ability to get those things up and running. And then we're in a much better place to deal with the pandemic, with much more minimal restrictions than we saw overseas