The article mentions that a "turnaround will come in the final three months of 2020", but surely Australia is going to be impacted just has badly as other states and this isn't even the beginning?
[1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/12046807...
If the modeling is correct, December will have a similar number of active infections as April, but the number will be declining.
I imagine Australian governments will be keen to restart the economy as soon as it's safe to do so.
[0] https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/dreaded-duo-austral...
The health care system is pretty abysmal here which I think is why the government is acting so strongly now; The city I'm in has just 18 ICU beds for a population of around 500,000. We're heading into winter as well and from what I've heard the government is expecting to hit peek case-rates in August.
If that is the case, I expect the full lockdowns will be a periodic thing over the coming months in order to keep cases manageable.
Too early to really tell how this is going to play out, but I don't think the current financial measures are enough; I expect we'll continue to see them expand in the coming weeks in an attempt to keep businesses a float.
18 in 500,000 is 0.00366%
2,200 in 25,000,000 is 0.0088%