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Podcast: Between the Lines
Episode: Economics of coronavirus recovery, and Alexander Downer on China
Description: How do we revive the economy once the pandemic passes?Coronavirus has Australia headed for a deep recession, so what can we do now to plan our way out of it? Is the answer more government intervention and state planning? Or, is now the time to launch a new reform agenda that sharpens the incentives to work, save, invest and hire?And, Alexander Downer: “I don’t know what China’s problem is”Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for an investigation into the origins of the virus. But China’s Ambassador in Canberra u...