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Enjoy your long weekend, fines for straying too far from home or playing too close to the kids – and double demerits if you dare to drive

9 April 2020

12:52 PM

9 April 2020

12:52 PM

Scott Morrison’s massive $130 billion JobKeeper subsidy package shows how determined the government is to ‘do whatever it takes’ to keep the Australian economy turning over.

But the expansion of welfare in these straitened times has been accompanied by an equally massive expansion of powers given to the police to enforce social lockdowns.

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