Professor McLaws noted public health measures required a "partnership with the community".
"That would help a lot, because we are a democracy and it would really help people to understand the sort of information that they're provided and then how they fully respond, or don't."Liberty Victoria's Greg Buchhorn said his organisation was sceptical about whether sufficient evidence on curfews had been presented to the community to justify the "extraordinary measure".
He said if another variant arrived and the government found itself contemplating the re-introduction of curfew, it would need to produce more evidence than it had on previous occasions. "Because when you're in the middle of a really deadly pandemic, you know, just saying 'you can never use that, that is not something you can ever use', I think that's dangerous," she said.
Around 13 months on, it is still pursuing that information through the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal amid departmental delays on its release.Leader of the opposition in the state's upper house David Davis said after Victorians had suffered the highest deaths, cases and closures of any jurisdiction, the government needed to release public health briefings behind the imposition of the curfew.
Melbourne bids farewell to lockdown and curfew. I suspect that the curfew had more to do with easing the load on the overworked police, in trying to keep tabs on useless citizens.
It's the last day on earth... In my dreams, in my dreams. It's the end of the world and you've..........
and prepares to welcome more Victorians to the ICU
Nothing controversial about it! 🙄
What trash. Nothing controversial about a common sense public health response to a dangerous virus in an unvaccinated population. Controversy was manufactured by Morrison's media machine. I want my ABC back. ThisIsNotJournalism
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I thought it made sense. Restrict movement. No controversy here!
There never was one ?
Controversial?
Running out of headlines to bash Victoria 🙄🙄🙄
This is the sort of bullshit headline I'd expect to see from radio 2gb/3aw. It's also the sort of bullshit headline that has many punters no longer showing any loyalty to the national broardcaster and switching off.
HEALTH FIRST and STAY SAFE. The Virus is still out there.
Controversial?
Dan is delivering on the national plan *fixed it again for you 😉
Could we get one thing straight? Lockdown hasn’t ended. We still can’t travel to regional Victoria nor can we shop retail unless outdoors or click and collect. When those two things change, we can call it an opening.
You know what I’m saying goodbye to? ANY opinion piece on our response to the pandemic. Surely it’s time to say goodbye to the over-saturation of commentary.
'Controversial' to who, apart from the Vic Libs and their mates in the Murdoch press?
What? Seriously concerned ‘controversial’?
As John Safran said. 'The ABC is just one big Sydney club.'
Curfew helped keep the illegal gatherings down.
News from Sydney as usual
Nice spin on a big old pile of BS there!!! But that is what you do isn't it?! We all know media is the virus!!!
Great to see both big States are moving on.
Just a reminder that Sydney had a lockout prior to the pandemic! Seems they couldn’t behave even before the virus.
Oh, to be a Liberal state for media coverage! In the matters of Covid, it seems NSW doesn't have any problems! With the amount of corruption in their ranks, I'll live with being a Labor supporter and ignore the ridiculous NSW bias. This article could have examined both states.
Your headline should read: ABC bids a tearful farewell to a reason to kick Melbourne every day. 😢 But not before getting one last boot in.
For now.
Retail isnt open yet
No longer my ABC ...
Did Sydney get a headline like this too? I mean the argument goes they only curfewed their hotspots due to outside pressure, not because they actually thought it would be effective. Isn't that worse than doing it due to health advice?
In my humble opinion, this article is shitfuckery.
Just stop it . You realise most of victoria sort read articles with these headlines. Move on or get left behind. Maybe you are too late.
For now
That’s crazy
And Sydney bid farewell to its 12 LGAs of concern and curfews !
It’s only controversial in media and political hype. It never was to the people focused on protecting as many as they could until we had the vaccine and could put other measures in place.
Melbourne has bid farewell to lockdown - and five days early. For fucks sake.
Wave after Wave . Once the Virus is In .
Dan Andrews was shooting people a couple of weeks ago
Bit early to open up at 70% & high num of cases 2000+. Should’ve waited till 80%
How can it be controversial when it saved people lives Bit over dramatic isn’t it!!!
Are you “Australian Broadcasting channel “ as you are named for? You seem liked being “NSW broadcasting channel” lately? I change name to NSWBC for you, since we already have PM for NSW, treasure (this dude living in Vic) for NSW, premier of Aust. Disgusting, shameful
I think the author is gunning for a NewsCorp gig.
Didn’t NSW have a curfew too, or are we just forgetting about Gladys claim of NSW being in the toughest lockdown in the world? She said that, right? In between the other lies. She said that. Lol. The RWNJ’s are going to have to find something else to whinge about. 🤣🤣🤣
What’s happened to the abc? Disgustingly bias framing in every account of Victoria’s lockdown and reopening. Where’s the excitement about meeting vaccination targets and reopening that you had for NSW?
Why would the curfew be controversial ? Lots of countries have them, at various times, and for various reasons.
Nooooo!!! I was looking forward to being carried off on a train to a medical concentration camp where I'll be offered to aliens as live autopsy material...now I'll just have to put up with medical segregation and get sick while vaxxed people carry on...
A most unhelpful headline, but sadly, not unexpected.
Not exactly controversial. 5 reasons to leave home. All closed by 9. Ergo stay home.
Miss it already. Unfortunately not being a Gym, hairdresser or a pub my opinion was never considered.
Controversial? What was controversial? The ABC infiltrated by Gov lackies & Murdoch cast offs!
Oh Dear.....what will you media types whinge about now 😁😝
Don’t you mean- Victoria has begun steady steps out of lockdown and THANK YOU to DanielAndrewsMP & VictorianCHO for making the tough decisions to keep us safe until majority of our citizens were vaccinated.
Was the curfew really that controversial. Been living it. Hmmm. And it wasn’t.
Controversial if you listen to MSM. Not so if you read research on it
How many hours did you toil to come up with a gem like that? Vultures you lot !
Here's to never having to sit in front of the TV watching news breakfast ever again
That’s the best you can do?
Please, just stop. Sydney had a curfew too, and only for areas with lower income and lower levels of English proficiency, meaning it affected predominantly multicultural communities. Now that should be controversial covid19vic covid19nsw
Controversial curfew? The streets are pretty quiet, it’s after 12am….doesn’t sound like people were raging against the curfew…..
Sydney has also bid farewell to lockdown — and its controversial curfew. Remember Sydney?
Finally!
Just stop it!
NSW also had “its controversial lockdown”.
Still feels like lockdown
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