Analysis: Josh Frydenberg is moving as fast as he can to make this horror slump a test for state premiers in how they open their economies | CroweDM
Those decisions were overseen and announced by Scott Morrison as Prime Minister and they included travel bans, business shutdowns, social restrictions and more.
Andrews cannot be singled out for blame for the slump to June 30, most of which came before the second wave in Victoria, but he will have to share responsibility for what comes next.The nation's economic fate depends in part on how the Victorian Premier brings the state outbreak under control. Even so, the Labor attack will force Frydenberg to devise a better answer on income support in the October budget, especially on the permanent JobSeeker rate for the swelling ranks of the unemployed. The sooner they have certainty the better.Frydenberg would rather disown this one. He made no memorable quip to describe the recession we could not avoid. He offered a bland and technical presentation instead, as if he feared making a remark that would be pinned on him for years.
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