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The Bigger Picture

Two panels. One panel is a small extract of the second. The first panel a man crawls out of a hole called 'Recession'. The hole is larger in the second panel, the man crawls out of a small hole on the edge.

The long-term social and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic remain unclear. Australia entered its first economic recession in almost 30 years in September 2020, only to bounce back out of it before the year’s end. Matt Davidson’s evocative image points to the wider risk COVID-19 still poses.