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Vital Signs: the best thing for jobs now is to accelerate the vaccine roll-out

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

Australia has navigated the COVID-19 pandemic and is now in better economic shape than most countries due to a two-pronged strategy.

First, we quickly got the virus largely under control – reflecting the reality it would have been impossible to have a properly functioning economy in the face of an out-of-control epidemic. Second, we had key...

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