The decision made by the Australian Federal Government at the end of December to embrace living with the Omicron variant is proving to be the correct one in terms of the impact on health, though there are also some challenging economic flow-ons that will take several weeks to improve. First, let’s look at the good news.

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Stephen Berry is a former Act candidate and Auckland Mayoral candidate. The libertarian political commentator retired as a politician in July 2020 and now hosts the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show on Youtube.