Showgirls Bar 20 has issued an open letter to Fiona Patten. The ask, "Kill the Bill".

It was said in parliament, that the president of the Victorian Bar Council, Christopher Blanden, QC, this afternoon has said this. The Andrews government’s draconian pandemic legislation is so bad that Mr Blanden has said: If the Stasi had these powers, they would still be in force. The Stasi—referring to the East German secret police. 

He said: Once a declaration is made, the health minister is given the extraordinary power to make an order necessary to protect public health, including the power to order detention, restriction of movement ... They can be enforced and punishable if you breach them by imprisonment for an unspecified period of time, effectively at the whim of the minister ... And then they’ve got this bizarre system where the only way you can challenge that is by making an application for review to someone called a detention review officer ... not to the courts. 

hat is absolutely true. 

Clause 165B provides: The pandemic management order powers are as follows— ... to detain a person in a pandemic management area in accordance with a pandemic order that requires the detention of the person (including a pandemic order that requires that the detention of a person be extended). 

For the avoidance of doubt, clause 165BE provides: Requirement to isolate or quarantine not of itself detention So for those of you who were thinking that this is simply requiring returned travellers or the like to quarantine at home, be in no doubt: you are under arrest. These provisions relate to the arbitrary arrest of Australian citizens on their home soil. Arbitrary arrest—that is what we are talking about. That is the magnitude of these provisions.  

This truly is a scary time for our democracy.

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