But it is not about saying there were no faults in the response to the pandemic. The pandemic should have been an opportunity to address those inequities that have existed for generations, which have made it challenging for people to respond and to stay safe. Ending poverty should have been part of our public health response; making sure that those responses we saw in the welfare system that supported people temporarily—for example, doubling the winter energy payment—should have been permanent measures that lifted people out of poverty. So I also see the recent approach as a missed opportunity to ensure that our communities are not just surviving but, rather, thriving. The Greens have always been clear, since the pandemic started, that we should seize the moment and ensure that everyone has a safe home to live in, has enough income to stock up when they need to in order to self-isolate, and that we end the punitive approaches in our welfare system that mean people still feel scared to reach out for support when they need to.