Tech and innovation must be at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery We must shrug off our historical ambivalence towards emerging technology and embrace it as a primary job creation mechanism for the post-pandemic economy. Share Australia has weathered the COVID-19 storm well. Now we must adjust our sails to catch the best wind in the recovery. Some days, when reading a newspaper, you might think that COVID-19 is an economic event. Fundamentally it is not – it is a public health crisis like none in living memory. Certainly there are profound economic impacts, but the first thought of policymakers at all levels was the preservation of life and health.