Public servants and billionaires profit while others lose

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'Public servants and billionaires profit while others lose livelihoods from lockdowns'
30/03/2021|9min

University of Queensland Professor James Allan says "public servants" and "billionaires" profited while small business owners "lost their livelihoods" as a result of the lockdowns.

“I just cannot believe that our politicians did not take a pay cut – they were just deeming some businesses non-essential – and a lot of those people are going to not just lose their livelihoods, they will end up losing the family home which they put down to guarantee the mortgage," he told Sky News host Alan Jones.

“It has been disgraceful.

“Public servants are coming out of this better – billionaires are making money through the whole lockdown.

"It has just been a disgrace how inequitable it has been.”