Opinion

The case for a national COVID-19 plan

NSW's success and Victoria's failures have taught us a lot about managing this virus. All the information should feed into a national response strategy to protect the country's health and economic future.

Peter StrongContributor

Oct 21, 2020 – 1.45pm

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Businesses, large and small and in between, always need as much certainty as possible. There are always unknowns, especially in a pandemic, but we need adequate information to make decisions about our futures and investments – and through that the future of jobs and the economy.

Wednesday's editorial in The Australian Financial Review highlighted the lack of a plan, and the need for one.

Peter Strong is a small business advocate at Community Economics and a former chief executive of the Council of Small Business of Australia.