Preserving individual freedoms should be a major consideration for Australians set to go to the polls in May at the next federal election, according to an economist. Gigi Foster, professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), said the four main political parties in Australia—Liberal, National, Labor, and Greens—had not acknowledged the problems of deploying harsh restrictions over the past two years to contain COVID-19, resulting in the curtailing of many rights. “We will be feeling the immense damage created by the policy mistakes of this period for a generation,” she told The Epoch Times. “For the major parties to have gone along with the madness initially is bad enough. For them still today not to acknowledge their mistakes, and instead to try to distract attention away to other policy areas, suggests that they are hoping to evade justice for their betrayals.” The move by Australian governments to rely …