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Gigi Foster

October 2024

Root-and-branch reform is the only way to restore the trust that has been lost in our institutions’ ability to provide for and serve Australia’s people.

Inquiry whitewashes the colossal mismanagement

The authors of the report are oblivious to the most fundamental big-picture cracks in our institutions revealed by the country’s Covid-19 response.

June 2023

Pandemic-era policies have taken an unacceptable toll on young people.

COVID-era policies cost young people $116b

Because policymakers gave in to political temptations and fear, the lives of our young people – and indeed all our lives – will be worse.

August 2020

A silenced Bourke Street in Melbourne may mean suffering later.

We can't cure the virus by making the economy sick

The economy is a mass activity of individuals living their lives. When it does not work properly, people also suffer and die.

May 2020

The costs of what we have done are enormous and will show up most obviously over the next few months in the body counts sacrificed to causes other than COVID-19.

Correctly counting the cost shows Australia's lockdown was a mistake

The future will now be worse because the flawed pandemic health projections didn't correctly calculate their effects on economic welfare.

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