Issue 2020 June 27
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Infrastructure, yes; but, Prime Minister, we need manufacturing lifted to 15% of GDP by 2035
by Patrick J. Byrne Morrison should announce plan for expanding manufacturing expanding to 15% of GDP by 2035: Creating around 1-2 million full-time, well paid jobs. With $1 trillion invested by government, new development bank, commercial banks and equity. Securing Australia’s economic and strategic future. Scott Morrison has announced the fast-tracking of around $72 billion in major infrastructure projects, but what he needs…
Covid19: Knowns, unknowns and unknown unknowns
by Patrick J. Byrne PART TWO OF TWO PARTS (Read the first part here) (Photo above is of NSW hospital staff during the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918-19) HOW TIGHT SHOULD RESTRICTIONS BE? Figure 1 (below), from the Federal Government’s Impact of Covid19 modelling, points to three infection scenarios: (a) where there are no restrictions; (b) quarantine and isolation of infected people; (c)…
