Victoria to accelerate reopening

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Via News:

Daniel Andrews has just confirmed for the first time that Victoria’s next easing of restrictions on Sunday will go further than the original road map.

With case numbers dropping, Mr Andrews promised a “significant announcement” on Sunday and he was asked this morning whether he was considering going further than originally planned with lifting restrictions.

“Yes, I am,” he said. “But I’m not in a position give you the full list of what we’re looking at. We’re looking at those and they become a detailed and look at what the risk is.”

“We don’t want to do something that might seem quite small but could present a significant challenge to us in a couple of weeks’ time,” he said. “That’s part of the nature of this virus.

Well done, Victorians.

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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.