2 A look at the savings banks group The year 2008 was when the financial crisis started raging. Every one of you, ladies and gentlemen, had to do your bit to make sure your own ship made it through this storm without running aground.
In preparing these forecasts we have assumed a rollout of the vaccines in Australia in line with current government guidance and that international travel remains highly restricted for the rest of this year. Our central scenario is for the upswing in the Australian economy to continue, with above-trend growth over the next couple of years (Graph 6).