Five big lessons that Australia learnt in 2020
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December 18, 2020 9.10pm
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The first of the five main lessons we’ve learnt from 2020 is that Australia is a highly capable country. On the whole, it dealt with the pandemic as well or better than any country on the planet.
The effective mobilisation to confront COVID-19 exposes a very hard fact about the nation’s many persistent problems – it turns out that most long-running problems are not problems of necessity but problems of choice. One quick example. We saw homelessness just about eliminated overnight.