But overall, we can certainly hold our heads up when the crisis narrative is told. At the same time, there are critical learnings for Australia from the experiences of those who had a worse time of it than us through the past seven years. We survived the crisis pretty well, but how do we avoid that leading to complacency?
What do we have to do to protect against a future crisis? How should we respond to the wave of changes to global regulatory standards? Meanwhile, the technological frontier continues to move ahead quickly, even if in ways that Wallis could not foresee.