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The West Live: Victoria retail advocate calls for Premier to step aside

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Caitlyn RintoulThe West Australian
One of Melbourne’s leading retail advocates and former Perth woman Chrissie Maus says Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews should step aside after shocking hotel quarantine blunders.
Camera IconOne of Melbourne’s leading retail advocates and former Perth woman Chrissie Maus says Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews should step aside after shocking hotel quarantine blunders. Credit: supplied/supplied

One of Melbourne’s leading retail advocates says Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews should step aside after shocking hotel quarantine blunders has forced the State into lockdown again.

Chapel Street Precinct Association secretary delegate director and former Perth resident Chrissie Maus will join The West Live host Jenna Clarke from 8.45am to discuss Melbourne’s economic uncertainty with restrictions reintroduced and what it means for the 2000 businesses she represents.

The association is aimed at marketing and promoting Melbourne's Chapel Street precinct and has been involved in negotiating with landlords to ease pressure on businesses unable to pay rent due to downturn throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

“The only reason we are in this position… is because the Andrews’ Government has messed up,” she told Sky News on Wednesday.

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“The only reason this is happening is because of decisions made by our government and decisions made that they absolutely have to take responsibility for.”

Ms Maus said if Dan “Mr Teflon” Andrews was in the corporate world he “absolutely would have been moved along”.

Regular guest and 7NEWS State Political Editor Geof Parry will also be on the show to talk about the week that was in WA politics.

Later on the show, Clarke will speak to Perth filmmaker Josh Lee who has created a documentary following the lives of four dads who grew up fatherless in one of Perth’s most violent suburbs.

Based in Perth’s eastern suburb of Armadale and stretching across 10 weeks, Mr Lee has explored the struggles faced by the men who are now banding together to break the cycle of “negative parenting”.

The documentary forms part of a national preventative program by The Fathering Project, a Perth-based organisation created to break the cyclical trauma and pain passed on from one generation to the next.

Clarke will ask Mr Lee what inspired him to produce the documentary and what he learned along the way. His documentary will premiere on July 12.

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