Melbourne's lockdown will “hold back the entire national economy,” the Sydney Morning Herald’s Shane Wright says.
Melbourne's lockdown will “hold back the entire national economy,” the Sydney Morning Herald’s Shane Wright says. The border between New South Wales and Victoria closed on Tuesday night and the Melbourne metropolitan area will be forced into lockdown at midnight tonight.
“Melbourne is 20 per cent of the national economy, if you are going to shut it down you are going to have a clear hit,” said Mr Wright. “This is a war-time quantum but the circumstances are so different from WWII where you had a baby boom, inflation and a surge in population. “You haven’t got those three key factors…for the coronavirus war.”
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