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Vital Signs: 4 things Australia's COVID response got right

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

2020 began simply, if dramatically enough in some sense.

We spent the first months preoccupied with bushfires that blackened both our natural environment and our international reputation for taking climate change seriously. Who would have thought that would have been the easy part?

Then came a global pandemic, the largest public health emergency...

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