‘Australians have sacrificed so much’: Tanya Plibersek’s vision for the nation after coronavirus
When the pandemic hit, the former Labor deputy leader saw opportunities for permanent improvements, so she put together a book
It was in March, when the pandemic threw all the pieces of a predictable life up into the air, that Tanya Plibersek thought she might have a book. Before the pieces fell back down into the same old place, she wanted to pull together a vision for a better landing.
Huge changes came one after the other: “We went to remote learning for kids almost overnight, we had banks offering mortgage relief, there were rent reductions for businesses, we were housing rough sleepers in hotels, all of these things would have seemed impossible and we were doing them almost overnight. It was such a massive undertaking, that I thought, well, there’s really an opportunity here that comes from this disruption.”
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