"Even in the presence of Government stimulus, and even in the presence of very relaxed monetary policy settings, we're going to look at some reduction in Australia's real standard of living over the next couple of years." @MrKRudd #abc730 #coronavirusaus
"We need to accustom ourselves to the idea that we're not going to be as prosperous as we were before until this virus is behind us." @MrKRudd #abc730 #coronavirusaus
"For me the big thing of concern to me is the real danger right now, given the nature of the Trump presidency, and nationalism and protectionism normalised around the world the last several years, would be an outbreak of protectionism." @MrKRudd #abc730 #coronavirusaus
"I have been critical of the slowness to act in terms of those stimulatory measures, as the Morrison Government
had to undertake its own political somersaults to get ever stimulus debt-deficit political overhang from a decade ago." @MrKRudd #abc730 #coronavirusaus #auspol
"The fact that the lockdown of the economy was announced prior to, by a significant number of days, the announcement of the wage subsidy which meant employers let hundreds of thousands of people go into unemployment unnecessarily." @MrKRudd #abc730 #auspol
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