Essential Report
Time to return to normal
Q. Thinking about the future, how long do you think it will take for the following to occur?
LAST MONTH (22/06) | Within the next six months | Seven months up to one year | One to two years | More than two years | Never |
A Covid-19 vaccine will be developed | 11% | 22% | 43% | 20% | 4% |
Quarantine will no longer required after international travel | 12% | 27% | 35% | 22% | 4% |
The housing market will return pre-pandemic levels | 11% | 22% | 38% | 25% | 4% |
International travel will be allowed without restriction | 10% | 23% | 39% | 24% | 4% |
Unemployment will return to pre-pandemic levels | 8% | 17% | 37% | 33% | 6% |
The population will build resistance to Covid-19 through exposure (herd immunity) | 8% | 15% | 31% | 27% | 20% |
Australia will pay off its national debt | 5% | 9% | 12% | 52% | 22% |
- Expectations of the effect of the Covid-19 have lengthened in the past month, with more people now thinking the impacts will last for more than two years.
- 32% expect it will be over two years before quarantine following international travel is removed (up from 22% last month). Similarly more people now think it will be over two years before housing prices (25% to 38%), unrestricted international travel (24% to 38%) and unemployment (33% to 48%) return to pre-Covid levels.
- 26% do not think a population-wide resistance to the disease will ever be achieved.

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