Vaccine roll-out accelerating as activity stalls

The outbreak of the Delta variant in Australia has continued to worsen. More states are now in lockdown and sentiment is deteriorating. That poses a downside risk to our Q3 GDP forecast. However the vaccine rollout continues to accelerate, which should allow Australia to lift domestic restrictions by the middle of Q4. That's why we think Australia will avoid another recession.

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