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Pandemic pain remains as Australia’s economic recovery leaves the poor behind

  • Written by Tom Barnes, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University

“Our recovery leads the world,” treasurer Josh Frydenberg told Australia on budget night last week. “We have overcome the biggest economic shock since the Great Depression.”

The government has repeatedly emphasised forecasts of the lowest unemployment rate since the end of the post-World War II economic boom, a time when...

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