By taking soft options on sealing the border, hard lockdowns and compulsory vaccinations, politicians are appeasing vocal minorities at the cost of the greater good.
Our leadership model today increasingly gives the impression of not being fit for purpose. Our institutions are under-delivering as we face up to the complexities, risks, and trade-offs of the pandemic.
There are growing examples of our leaders baulking at the hard decisions that, as a community, we need to be taken.
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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.
