JIM CHALMERS MP
SHADOW TREASURER
MEMBER FOR RANKIN

MISMANAGING THE PANDEMIC MEANS MISMANAGING THE ECONOMY

The recovery would be stronger if not for the Morrison Government’s failures on the health front. 
 
Today’s Deloitte Access Economics Business Outlook is yet another important reminder that mismanaging the pandemic means mismanaging the economy. 
 
The recovery is hostage to the Morrison Government’s incompetence and complacency.
 
You can’t have a healthy economy without healthy people. 
 
One of the world’s slowest booster rollouts and a crippling shortage of a rapid tests has economic consequences. 
 
Australians who’ve done their jobs during the pandemic are being let down badly by a Prime Minister unwilling or incapable of doing his.
 
For the best part of two years now Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg have been taking credit for a recovery without doing their jobs to actually secure it.
 
The same complacency and incompetence that’s given Australians a shortage of groceries and rapid tests has given workers a shortage of wages growth for almost a decade. 
 
MONDAY, 17 JANUARY 2022