National CEO Survey Business Prospects in 2020: Manufacturing in 2020:

This report provides a snapshot of the state of Australian manufacturing, on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic and summer’s bushfire crisis. The 2019 survey was conducted in October and November of 2019, prior to these events. Even back then, Australia’s manufacturing CEOs were more pessimistic about business conditions than they had been in many years, as we began the new decade.