Exclusive: Billionaire businessman Anthony Pratt says both the Victorian and federal governments are doing a great job at managing the coronavirus pandemic overall
Billionaire businessman Anthony Pratt says both the Victorian and federal governments are doing a great job at managing the coronavirus pandemic overall, and the ultimate measure of the response is an Australian death toll much lower than overseas.
The executive chairman of recycling and cardboard box manufacturing giant Visy also said he was comfortable with the road map released by the Victorian government on Sunday to guide the state out of the lockdown. Visy executive chairman Anthony Pratt:"I think Daniel Andrews is doing a great job, I think that Scott Morrison's doing a great job.""I think that in the grand scheme of things we just have to focus on everyone's health.
"The third thing is what I would call the geo-strategic rift with China. Where people are now saying 'well, we don't want our supply lines cut off, in case relations between the two countries become more difficult'," he said."I think the trick here is not to get sucked into producing things that we don't have a competitive advantage in, like sneakers...
"Food manufacturing accounts for a third of all manufacturing jobs in Australia. And in the last five or six years there's been 700 or 800 food factories built," he said.Get our Coronavirus Update newsletter for the day's crucial developments at a glance, the numbers you need to know and what our readers are saying. Sign up to
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