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Government to pay $125m for COVID business settlement

Taxpayers will be slugged $125 million to settle a class action brought by businesses impacted by one of the world's longest ...
The Victorian taxpayer will be slugged a whopping $125m after the state government settled a court case with businesses forced to shut down during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Class action settles after retailers argued state government should pay them for economic loss resulting from pandemic lockdown ...
Taxpayers are likely to be slugged more than $50m after the Allan government settled a class action brought by business owners over its botched Covid-19 hotel quarantine program.