It seems that the Victorian Labor government has become fed up with having to operate in a parliamentary democracy. The Age reports that the government is ‘secretly negotiating permanent pandemic laws to replace state of emergency.’ If passed, such laws would remove the annoying requirement for the government to go back to parliament on a regular basis to justify its ‘emergency’ lockdown (and other) powers.
I suppose that from the government’s perspective this is perfectly reasonable.
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