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Is Dan Andrews using coronavirus as cover for war on the self-employed

21 July 2020

3:05 PM

21 July 2020

3:05 PM

Does Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ want to make being your own boss illegal? There’s mounting evidence.

With the second big lockdown imposed in Melbourne, Chairman Dan (as the cartoonists like to show him) has offered support packages for small businesses. But it’s not available for self-employed people. It’s discriminatory. Many are suffering according to this ABC report and will go broke because of this second lockdown.

This discrimination is on top of an Andrews government report released last week seeking to make self-employment illegal.

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