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Introducing OzSAGE, a source of practical expert advice for how to reopen Australia from COVID safely

Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

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Australia is in the middle of its worst COVID-19 outbreak. Our hospital system is under strain. Vulnerable communities are being hit hard. And more than half the nation is locked down.

There is an understandable desire to know when we can reopen. But there is also an even more important need to know how we can reopen.

The nat...

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