Lockdown wind-back clear as toxic infection cloud

Tuesday 7 April 2020

ScoMo says he’s in control, at the AFR:

Australia’s economic recovery will be a series of “trials”, with some states moving faster than others in lifting COVID-19 shutdown restrictions and potentially gaining a competitive edge, Scott Morrison says.

The Prime Minister has also revealed that work is under way to better safeguard Australia’s “economic sovereignty” in the aftermath of the crisis.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.