Top chief executives are split over the right response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with healthcare and retail bosses urging a hard economic shutdown while directors of big banking, aviation and energy companies back the cautious approach of the Morrison government.
Without a hard shutdown, this could drag into September," nib boss Mark Fitzgibbon said. Louie Douvis
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