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Our existing political elites fundamentally broke trust over the Covid debacle. They panicked, threw the manual out the window, and then used the full power of the state, and state adjacent institutions, to impose panic on the whole population.
There is one factor driving or worsening Australia's economic position. People are marching in the street about it. The treasurer couldn't even mention it.