The chairman of biotechnology company CSL, Brian McNamee, said it was "radically wrong" for Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to extend emergency COVID-19 powers, saying his handling of the virus had not "earned or deserved" the right to crush people's civil liberties.
Melbourne-based Dr McNamee, whose company is developing a vaccine for COVID-19, encouraged other Victorians to speak up about the state government's authoritarian overreach and failure to give due weight to the economic and social damage inflicted by lockdowns.
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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
