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Lessons and Lasting Effects of the Pandemic
It's wonderful to be here in Adelaide, and to able to speak to the Ai Group in person. It truly has been an extraordinary time since we last came together in Geelong, back in 2019. The title of my speech that time was ‘Lumps, Bumps and Waves’. Well, since then, we really have taken our lumps, seen an enormous bump, and come to dread additional waves (of the pandemic)! The human, social and economic costs of this pandemic have been huge. The outcomes have diverged wildly from expectations. There really was no rulebook for understanding how the pandemic would play out. The possibility of a pandemic was certainly ... (full story)