MRC Report: COVID-19

Getting Australia Safely Back to Work

Published: July 2020

Authors: Henry Ergas AO, Joe Branigan

Introduction: Nick Cater

Returning to business as usual not only involves growing our economy out of the 2020 collapse, but also doubling down on efforts to make our economy more efficient, adaptable and resilient to health, social, environmental and economic shocks of all kinds. A nimbler economy will adjust more quickly and at lower cost to the next unknown shock that will be sure to visit our shores in the next decades.