Australians are experiencing new levels of trepidation about what comes next in the Covid-19 pandemic | Peter Lewis

Economic despair combined with high levels of support for conspiracy theories could make for a heady political brew

Our national “staycation” is coming to an end and people are slowly, many reluctantly, emerging to a world that may appear the same on the surface but has fundamentally got harder.

We have watched with something approaching national pride as our public institutions have held up, our governments having worked together with the public and averted even our best-case fatality scenarios for the first wave of the pandemic.

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