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Andrew Mohl

Sydney lost a lockdown lottery

We made our bed when we continued to allow exempted international arrivals into a makeshift hotel quarantine system and now we have to lie in it.

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Australia has come through the pandemic as well as any other country.

The most important decision taken to date was the closure of the international border in March 2020. This cut off the proliferation of the virus by reducing international arrivals by more than 99 per cent.

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Andrew Mohl was a senior economist at the RBA and group chief economist at ANZ Bank, before becoming CEO of AMP and an independent non-executive director of Commonwealth Bank.

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