The worst consumer confidence since 1992 and the supply chain crisis amid the shortage of RATs shows that mismanaging the pandemic is mismanaging the economy.
Australians were led to believe that 2022 would be better than 2021, but last week’s consumer confidence figures told a very different and very concerning story.
That’s why providing free rapid antigen tests is not only good health and social policy, but good economic policy too. And why Medicare needs to be strengthened, not undermined.Finance Minister Simon Birmingham of all people should understand this, but instead he describes Labor’s policy of rapid tests provided through Medicare as “the worst thing you could do”.
Australians are prepared to do their jobs, but they need a prime minister and a treasurer prepared to do theirs.This is despite multiple warnings since September, from health professionals such as the Australian Medical Association, from aged care providers, from truck drivers and others. Australians are prepared to do their jobs, but they need a prime minister and a treasurer prepared to do theirs.
By March 2021, the government was withdrawing JobKeeper well before the end of the crisis, and despite falling more than 3 million doses short of their vaccine targets. In the following month, according to Treasury, more than 56,000 Australians lost jobs as a consequence.
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