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The truth about coronavirus fines
15 minutes Posted Apr 21, 2020 at 6:00 pm.
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Thousands of Australians have been fined by police under Covid-19 public health orders. New analysis shows that a disproportionate number of them have been issued in areas largely populated by Indigenous Australians and those from migrant backgrounds. Today, Osman Faruqi on policing and racial bias in a pandemic.

Guest: 7am editor Osman Faruqi.

Background reading:

Compliance fines under the microscope in The Saturday Paper

The Saturday Paper

The Monthly

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