The Australian government and businesses are being urged to keep taking risks as they did during last year’s recession to ensure the economic recovery continues. Su McCluskey of the National COVID-19 Commission Advisory Board told a conference in Canberra that last year, faced with a pandemic, Australia was able to be “nimble and responsive” and a lot of quick action was taken. “We were prepared to take risks. I think that is something we have got to keep doing,” McCluskey told a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event on June 24. “One of the things we don’t want to do is to slip back into a complacency about ‘it’s okay, we can go back to business as usual.’ That’s not what innovation is about.” Such has been the success of Australia’s recovery in terms of the labour market, many businesses are already floundering to find suitable staff. New …