Melbourne residents are waking up to their first day of a six-week lockdown.
Victoria Police said officers will be conducting random spot checks, and those caught travelling for non-essential purposes will be fined $1,600. Image: News Corp Australia
Sad that police are necessary. Just shows how ignorant and immature many Australians people are.
DictatorDan CedarAndrews
Too late. Most of them got out of there before 11.59pm last night 🤷♀️
Dans Victoria. Thanks you tyrant for putting the fear in kids being bombarded with seeing and hearing police harras ppl going about their business! Stopping cars IN traffic to ask where they r going. Witnessed this 3 times on main road heading into shopping centre for FOOD!
At what point do you become more afraid of your own government than the virus. Looks like now is that turning point.
We have dubbed stage 3 lockdown as 'Dan's Lockup'
Black shirts brigade
Nearly There
Police state..... it’s a virus not China
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'We are all Melburnians now': PM offers support as Melbourne prepares for lockdown | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison has urged Melburnians to 'tough it out' as the city prepares for a six week lockdown starting from midnight.\n\nPremier Daniel Andrews has confirmed 134 new coronavirus cases in Victoria in the past 24 hours, 75 of which are from public housing towers across Melbourne.\n\nUnder the state's new lockdown measures - set to come into full force at midnight tonight - the state will remain closed for up to six weeks before the government considers easing restrictions.\n\nSpeaking to reporters ahead of the lockdown, Mr Morrison said the nation is completely behind Melbourne.\n\n'We will keep doing our job and I know Australians will keep doing theirs,' he said.\n\n'And right now, that job is if you’re a Melburnian, is to tough it out and it will be tough, but know the rest of the country is with you.\n\n'The rest of the country knows that the sacrifice that you’re going through right now is not just for you and your own family, but it’s for the broader Australian community. And I want to thank Melburnians.'\n\nThe prime minister said at this stage, the government does not believe lockdowns should be implemented nationwide.\n\n ScottMorrisonMP Travis is on the scene .. emm_downunder ScottMorrisonMP ScottMorrisonMP Bravo! This is what I said. If I had to lockdown I would - no complaints. Others have shot me down for saying 'Just do it!' I really don't know why they think the Melbourne people can't do it -They Can & Will. Let's get it done PLEASE! Just get it done! Stay Safe!
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Australia needs a 'national plan' to deal with Melbourne's COVID outbreak | Sky News AustraliaThe recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Victoria highlights need for a cohesive, national economic recovery plan, according to Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick.\n\nPremier Daniel Andrews has confirmed 134 new coronavirus cases in Victoria in the past 24 hours, 75 of which are from public housing towers across Melbourne.\n\nUnder the state's new lockdown measures - set to come into full force at midnight tonight - the state will remain closed for up to six weeks before the government considers easing restrictions.\n\nAs a result of the surging number of COVID cases in Melbourne, the border between New South Wales and Victoria will close at midnight on Tuesday.\n\nWith Victoria responsible for more than 20 per cent of Australia's GDP, the need for national economic recovery plan plan is pressing, Mr Patrick told Sky News.\n\n“One of the problems we’ve got is that we’re not seeing an integrated plan, something that looks at all aspects including infrastructure as a mechanism for growth, having some elements of manufacturing encouraged for value add and self-reliance,' he said.\n\n“We need to look at this as a national issue and we need to focus on solutions.\n\n “We need to be looking right across the spectrum at the entire package. \n\n“We need an integrated plan.”\n\n Senator_Patrick Might be mother natures way of getting rid of him over his deception in signing up to China's debt trap Belt and Road scam! Senator_Patrick Step 1 demand DanielAndrewsMP resign auspol
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Growing unrest inside locked down Melbourne towers | Sky News AustraliaThere is growing unrest among the thousands of public housing residents who have been forced into lockdown amid Melbourne’s coronavirus outbreak. \n\nA 32-year-old man allegedly tried to bite a police officer while attempting to flee his home in Flemington, the city’s north-west. \n\nResidents inside the towers complained limited communication and poor quality of care contributed to unlivable conditions. \n\nIn the state’s darkest day since the coronavirus outbreak, 127 new people were diagnosed with the virus and two people died on Monday, taking the state’s death toll to 22. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia The virus doesn’t scare them half as much as a over reaching RULERS, Obviously, community transmission of covid is now rife in Vic and the premier is responsible due to poor decisions that have been made in the past month! Now he is engaging in a butt covering exercise making the disadvantaged who live in the housing blocks the scapegoats. It's damn right creepy!
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STAGE 3 LOCKDOWNS: Daniel Andrews orders Melbourne back into quarantine | Sky News AustraliaPremier Daniel Andrews has ordered everyone in Metropolitan Melbourne back into stage three lockdowns as he warns Victoria is on the “cusp of a second wave” of the killer coronavirus.\n\nMr Andrews said every resident in the city would be banned from leaving their home for at least six weeks as his state recorded another 191 cases.\n\n“The public health team have advised me to reimpose stage 3 stay at home restrictions, staying at home except for the four reasons to leave, effective from midnight tomorrow night for a period of six weeks,” he said.\n\n“There is simply no alternative other than thousands and thousands of cases and potentially more. Many, many people in hospital and the inevitable tragedy that will come from that.”\n\nMr Andrews revealed 35 people were fighting COVID-19 in hospital while 9 were fighting for their lives in intensive care.\n\nVictoria has at least 772 active coronavirus with health officials fearing the true figure is much larger. I love Skynews Australia where COVID19 is a ' killer coronavirus' at 4pm in the afternoon but 'overblown' and Andrews is a 'dictator' at 7pm when the Skynews After Dark (SAD) clowns roll in... Can Morrison put in place asylum seeking measures for Victorians to go to any other state? auspol pmlive Great job DanielAndrewsMP
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Melbourne forced back into lockdown in $6b blow to economy | Sky News AustraliaVictoria's coronavirus outbreak has forced Melbourne and the Mitchell shire back into lockdown from midnight tonight. \n\nAs the rest of Australia opens, Melbourne residents will be under stay-at-home orders for the next six weeks, in a blow which is expected to put a $6 billion hole in the state economy. \n\nThe stay-at-home order was put in place on Tuesday after 191 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the state. \n\nPremier Daniel Andrews said the state was forced into lockdown due to Victorians’ complacency. \n\n“I’m not here to criticise Victorians, I’m not here to be lecturing Victorians, but I’ve got to call it out, and I think every Victorian knows at least one other person who perhaps hasn’t been following the rules as much as they should have,” he said. \n\nVictorian businesses are being offered some much-needed relief, as banks extend loan repayments to businesses still struggling with financial hardship due to the virus. \n\nThe federal government has also made emergency changes to childcare funding, to support Victorian families impacted by the new lockdown orders. \n 191 cases. 🙄🙄🤨🤨🤨 Yeah, but at least they declared a climate emergency.
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National economy to take 'clear hit' as a result of Melbourne lockdown | Sky News AustraliaMelbourne's lockdown will “hold back the entire national economy,” the Sydney Morning Herald’s Shane Wright says. \n\nThe border between New South Wales and Victoria closed on Tuesday night and the Melbourne metropolitan area will be forced into lockdown at midnight tonight. \n\n“Melbourne is 20 per cent of the national economy, if you are going to shut it down you are going to have a clear hit,” said Mr Wright. \n\n“This is a war-time quantum but the circumstances are so different from WWII where you had a baby boom, inflation and a surge in population. \n\n“You haven’t got those three key factors…for the coronavirus war.” Blm should be sued I mean if that's accurate, isn't it better it be on hold than full of dead people? Oh wait only rich people give a shit about the economy & they don't care how many people die. How is it working for Murdoch & knowing he'd sell you for a two dollar coin?
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