No one has the answers on COVID-19: Jillian Broadbent

The Macquarie Group and Woolworths director is not one to get swept up in premier-bashing.

Jillian Broadbent says although we remain in uncharted waters, there are lessons to be learned from the pandemic. Dominic Lorrimer

Sally PattenBOSS editor

Oct 30, 2020 – 12.00am

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For months, almost any announcement from state premiers that their borders were to remain closed, or from Victorian leader Daniel Andrews that he was not yet ready to reopen the economy, has been met with derision from business and federal politicians.

"I just think it's ... ridiculous that they aren't opening up," thundered Flight Centre chief executive Graham Turner after Andrews – briefly as it turns out – delayed the reopening of the Victorian economy on Sunday because of continuing concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.

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Sally PattenBOSS editorSally Patten edits BOSS, and writes about workplace issues. She was the financial services editor and personal finance editor of the AFR, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited business news for The Times of London.