Tuesday, 16 November 2021

COVID-19

Dr BACH (Eastern Metropolitan) (12:53): The member for Brunswick made some odd comments in the Age newspaper this morning, denigrating Victorians who have grave concerns about the Andrews Labor government’s pandemic lockdown laws. In particular what he said is that those of us on this side of the house are now lining up with a ‘crowd’. Well, there is a crowd that is lining up to oppose these oppressive and dangerous laws. Is the crowd he is referring to the one that includes the Law Institute of Victoria and the Victorian Bar, the head of which has said that if the Stasi in East Germany had had these powers, they, along with the communist regime there, would remain in place. Is the crowd that the Greens member in the other place referred to the one that contains 60 eminent barristers who have spoken out against these laws? Is this crowd the one that includes the Ombudsman, who took to the radio this morning to condemn the government’s amendments and to say, for example, that on the issue of oversight nothing changes? This is the crowd that members of the opposition line up with and we will continue to line up with to do everything we can to oppose these dangerous lockdown laws.