Friday 25 November 2022 03:23 AM Sally Capp: Melbourne Lord Mayor says Covid-19 was 'GOOD' for the city trends now
The mayor of the Australian city that suffered through the most lockdowns during Covid-19 is under fire for arguing the pandemic was 'good for' her city.
Sally Capp, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, made her views clear in a speech due to be delivered in the city on Friday.
'There aren't many who will stand in front of a crowd like this and say Covid has been good for anything or anyone,' Ms Capp is expected to say at the TEDxMelbourne event in pre-released remarks.
'But I'm here to do just that.'
Sally Capp, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, will say in a speech on Friday that the Covid-19 pandemic was ultimately 'good' for her city
Ms Capp claims economic activity in Melbourne has recovered to pre-pandemic levels and will total $150billion by 2031.
'Now that's what I call lockdown to boomtown,' Ms Capp will say in the speech.
'Melbourne has emerged bruised, but bolder and braver because of it all.
'It’s thanks to the debilitating impacts of Covid, the 262 days as a broken city and community, that we have achieved the seemingly impossible, pirouetted, taken risks, dreamed big and accelerated progress,' she states in the speech.
The city's residents experienced a record 262 days in lockdown across six lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, the world's longest cumulative period of movement restriction during the pandemic.
