Building for a brighter Future]

摘要

While we suspected that the Covid-19 pandemic would have a massive and devastating impact on the entire planet, it's only as we continue to experience it, that we are beginning to understand just how far reaching the impacts of this unprecedented global disaster are. For all intents, Covid-19 has, and for that matter continues to have, a previously unimaginable impact on the day-to-day lives of pretty much every human on the planet. Together with the horrific death toll and almost unimaginable levels of human suffering (both physically, emotionally and financially) Covid-19 has permanently changed the way that humans will interact both with each other and the environment as a whole. Then, of course, there is the economic toll. Put simply, if in late 2019, someone had suggested to you that the levels of government borrowings and debt and that have been undertaken in Australia over the past four months would be widely welcomed and lauded by many as 'global best practice', you would have likely thought they'd taken leave of their senses. Yet, there we are -nearly $260 billion committed so far and an expected deficit of well over $550 billion... and by international standards, we're doing extremely well. Perhaps most importantly, we, as a nation, can be fiercely proud of our collective achievements in managing Covid-19.1 can say with full confidence, that when we started locking things down during February, nobody but NOBODY, would have dared to hope that our death toll would still be less than 110 almost six months later.