The Albanese government has decided to learn as little as possible about how to deal with the next pandemic. This is anof all those who worked hard to overcome the COVID-19 crisis, which is still at large. This includes hundreds of thousands of small business people who fought to stay open and keep their employees during COVID – and the industry bodies who fought to help them.
The heads of industry associations and unions worked seven days a week during this time. The public servants in the ATO, the ACCC, Treasury and their state counterparts also worked long hours to get the responses to the crisis developed and into action. The same applies across the media, health services and those at quarantine sites.
There is so much knowledge and information out there on what we did and how we all performed. The states were key to the success of our management of COVID, but like everyone they were not perfect.