In this episode, we bring you a recording of a national webinar event we held in April, analysing the Australian Government’s fiscal response to the COVID crisis. As part of this event we had a panel discussion facilitated by Shane Wright the Senior Economics Correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. Shane was joined by:

• Steven Hamilton, an Assistant Professor of Economics at The George Washington University, and Visiting Fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at ANU;
• Richard Holden professor of economics at the University of NSW Business School;
• Nicki Hutley, Senior Partner at Deloitte Access Economics; and
• Danielle Wood, the Budget Policy and Institutional Reform Program Director at the Grattan Institute and the Economic Society of Australia’s national President.