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The businesses copping the worst haircut

The businesses copping the worst haircut

The escalating shutdown's toll on business is playing out as political tensions emerge over the economic damage.

Hairdresser Shane Henning at Sydney's Noddys on King today. 

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As government mandate forces thousands of small businesses to shut their doors across Australia, hairdresser Phillip Galbraith questions why he can't follow suit.

At Galbraith's salon, Noddy's On King in Sydney's hipster hub of Newtown on Wednesday morning, the phone was ringing off the hook.

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