The Bigger Picture
Matt Davidson
6 March 2021
The long-term social and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic remain unclear. Australia entered its first economic recession in almost 30 years in September 2020, only to bounce back out of it before the year’s end. Matt Davidson’s evocative image points to the wider risk COVID-19 still poses.
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