The confluence of COVID-19 and an oil market collapse means that our oil boom is well and truly over. We have no public sector savings, approximately $85bn (20 percent of GDP) that we have difficulty servicing, unemployment closer to 40 percent than the official 6 percent when adjusted for COVID-19,
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