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Leading article Australia

State of disastrous decision-making

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

Wherever you are on the political spectrum, one word that should strike fear into you is ‘curfew’. Curfews are tools of political repression, of martial law, of military occupation. They are not part of living in a thriving parliamentary democracy.

Yet this week, and for weeks if not months to come, nearly five million Victorians are living under a nightly curfew.

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