Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told global business leaders that his government did not view the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to create a more “state-centred” economy but instead had backed a more sustainable business-led recovery. In a speech to the Davos Agenda 2022 virtual summit hosted by the World Economic Forum, Morrison laid out Australia’s way through the global fallout from the pandemic and its approach to supporting economic recovery and resilience over the next decade. “We did not see a government-centered recovery sustaining into the future,” he said on Jan. 21. “There was certainly a role for government, but the role for the government was to ensure that we would have a sustainable business-led recovery. “We knew we were dealing with a public health crisis, albeit one with profound economic and social consequences. “We never saw it as cover for some sort of funky experiment to transform our economic system. …