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February 14, 2021 — 10.30pm
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COVID-19
Let’s focus on keeping local businesses afloat
I am dismayed to be back in lockdown but given the circumstances and possible consequences – a significant and rapid spread of a highly virulent strain of the virus – I am prepared to do what it takes.
It is not helpful for various industry bodies to be quick to tell me what damage this will do to an already battered Victorian economy. What would be helpful is for these organisations to use their considerable communications expertise to tell me what I can do to help local businesses that are hit hard. The government is being ni ....

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