Commentary As Australia is now three months away from a federal election, the electorate will soon be inundated with information and commentary, some fatuous and some sensible, about the parties’ performance, policies, and candidates. Specifically, the government’s management of the toxic world of the COVID-19 pandemic will unquestionably be evaluated during the election campaign. At the very start of the pandemic, the federal government, to the surprise of those who are fiscal conservatives, started to spend money that the country could not afford and does not have. At present, Australia’s debt exceeds more than a trillion dollars. The days are gone that the ruling and opposition parties excitedly bickered over two or three billion dollars deficit or surplus when presenting the proposed budget to parliament! Despite generous handouts, the government’s approach decimated the business sector and destroyed jobs. The government embraced modelling, which predicted that 150,000 Australians would die, while …