Are We Going Back to the Way Things Used to Be?

Pete O'Neill asks what effect the morrison government's flirtation with lefty economic intervention during early coved might have had on the shiftin public opinion. And she asks, how much can we link that back to some of those big interventions during the pendemic? Wen't they? Transittes? Absolutely a and it was interesting that when it was no longer an academic argument, but there was a real crisis, government needed to do the things that people want government to do all the time. The problem, of course, is, as we said earlier, without a secure base to fund that, it does become a little bit performative.