Because the government's hands will be full dealing with the realities of the COVID-19 recovery, pre-crisis favourite policy ideas shouldn't be top of the agenda.
One should never waste a good crisis. So a lot of people are arguing that now is the perfect time to enact whatever was their favourite policy reform well before COVID-19 came along.
But the world has really changed, and policy priorities need to reflect the new reality.
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John Daley is the chief executive of the Grattan Institute.
