National cabinet’s unanimous decision to scrap the five-day stay-at-home isolation rule and terminate the $540 pandemic leave disaster payments for workers who contract COVID-19 is a welcome step.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the time for emergency measures is past, and that it was not “sustainable for the government to pay people’s wages forever”. That seems right on both health and budget grounds, and taking into account the worker shortages across the economy.
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