Tuesday, 16 November 2021

COVID-19

Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) (12:56): ‘I don’t know what half of them are protesting about’. So said Premier Daniel Andrews earlier this year when demonstrations against his regime began on the streets of Melbourne. What a pity he was not out the front of this building last Saturday afternoon. He would have been left in no doubt that he is the subject of their anger, and in particular his attempts to claim all power over just about everything. It was my very great honour to address a crowd of, according to police estimates, 90 000, all committed to freedom for Victoria. The crowd was huge—it was absolutely huge. In fact I stood on the back of a truck and I could not actually see where the crowd finished. I have not seen a protest that size since the dying days of the Kirner government. Is history repeating itself?

It was also diverse—a word that the Labor Party like to use. There were young, there were old, there were female and male—people from every part of Victoria, from every background, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, singles and families. Such a magnificent gathering was the people expressing—peacefully—their opposition to the Andrews government and its ongoing attempts to shaft Victorians. Thousands have returned again today, and I invite the Premier to walk down the steps to speak to them. It just might do him a world of good. Indeed it might do us all a world of good.