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Australia's COVID-19 about-face is a warning for everyone

Scott Morrison should channel the Hawke-Keating era to get creative about reform

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Scott Morrison's problem is the lack of a Plan B.   © AP

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

You do not need to be a political genius to know that no national leader wants their name tied to a recession.

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