Curiosity and Imagination

Curiosity and imagination is all that stands between us and still living in caves.

Our conservative government has legislated curiosity and imagination out of the national mind.
It is the one thing that I believe we're almost systematically jeopardizing in the way we progress.

Consider the  Snapback thoughts
Scott Morrison’s firmly stated belief that the economy would “snap back” was an act of hope.
But it was also a failure of imagination, an inability to imagine the world might do anything other than return to what it was already. 

And it is this same failure of imagination that is observable in the policies the government has announced or hinted at announcing soon. 

They are, almost without exception, rehashes or expansions of policies the government had been pursuing before the crisis hit. 
This is the true meaning of “snapback”, and the strongest sense in which it is still the government’s approach: pretend the virus hasn’t happened. 
Go back to whatever you were doing before it arrived.
Don’t attempt for a moment to imagine a new way that things might be done, even if the evidence that a shift is unavoidable – and possibly helpful – is staring you in the face.