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Coronavirus Victoria: Plans to extend ‘state of emergency’ for 12 months
Virus-weary Victorians, hoping to be lockdown free next month, have lashed the “Dictator Dan” after he asked for an extension of coronavirus powers.
AUGUST 25, 202010:28AM
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews is facing ongoing criticism after revealing he planned to extend his state of emergency declaration for another 12 months.
The declaration, which gives Victoria’s chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton the power to immediately enforce coronavirus measures without parliamentary approval, is due to end next month.
Legislation also restricts state of emergency declarations to a maximum of six months, however Mr Andrews hopes to push this out to 12 months.
Mr Andrews took to Twitter to issue a late night defence of the extension, reminding Victorians that the state of emergency is needed to give the state’s chief health officer the power to enforce coronavirus measures.
The extension is due to be debated in State Parliament next week – if Parliament is able to return – however the Premier is already facing a barrage of criticism.
Despite the criticism from Mr Andrews’ political opponents, a former head of the Australian Medical Association disputed the furore.
Dr Tony Bartone, the former head of the AMA, said Victoria needed to find a way to emerge from lockdown safely but the state’s health authorities also needed the authority to enforce measures if necessary.
“It is about having the necessary ability to allow the chief health officer's directives to be enforced,” Dr Bartone told Today.
“But already we are seeing signs in the community, in my patients, that really this is starting to take a toll and we really need to find a way where we can come out of it and live in a post-COVID world until the vaccine comes along, and really it is getting to be a bit of a struggle at the moment out there.
“The chief health officer's directives need that framework to be able to be enforced. With those measures, the mask-wearing, the quarantine, the restriction on gatherings, these have all been important measures that have been able to assist us in getting on top of that.”
Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett blasted the extension and said Mr Andrews was a “megalomaniac” attempting a “grab for dictatorial power”.
Victorian Opposition leader Michael O’Brien did the rounds on breakfast TV this morning to lash the Premier.
“I don't believe any politician deserves a blank cheque particularly when we see how tough Victorians are doing it,” Mr O’Brien told Today.
“People have been locked out of jobs, kids locked out of schools. The problem is Daniel Andrews has a plan for lockdown for 12 months but he doesn't have a plan to get us back to work. That’s what Victorians want. We want optimism.”
Mr O’Brien called on the Premier to “justify why these extraordinary powers should be extended”.
“And they certainly shouldn't be extended for 12 months with a stroke of a pen,” he said.
“There is a reason why in law the state of emergency can only exist for six months, and that's because this is the most intrusive circumstances Victorians have ever lived under.
“We have never had a curfew before. We have never seen all the schools closed and told we have to wear masks. When you have these powers, it is important that the politicians are accountable to the people when they use those powers.”
Victoria Lockdown Extended for Full YEAR!
August 24, 2020 — In Australia the province of Victoria was placed on the hardest COVID lockdown of any western nation thus far for a duration of 6 weeks. I wrote about that in a report titled Australia’s Medical Fasicism on August 5.
Now that lockdown is being extended up to 12 more months! Let’s review what that means:
Cannot travel more than 5 km from your home
Can only leave home to exercise 1 hour per day
Only one person can go shopping per family each day
All shopping is to be done within 5 km
No visitors allowed in your home.
Schooling 100% remote with rare exception
Shutting down all businesses
Shutting down all services
Shutting down all construction
Shutting down all warehouses
Can’t leave Victoria
Global Warming & Resource Depletion
As I reported on August 5, I believe the true goal of this lockdown is demand destruction. Keeping people in place on lockdown will stop consumption of many resources especially oil and gas for travel. As the global elites continue to worry about Global Warming and resource depletion, I believe the lockdowns are the plan they are implementing to address it in secret, using COVID as cover.
Recently on WBAI 99.5fm radio in NYC a young eco-activist was being interviewed. When the COVID lockdown in New York was discussed she was very happy to state, “Everything we did during the lockdown in New York is exactly what environmental activists have been saying we need to do for years!” I believe she inadvertently hit the nail on the head with that statement. There are forces at play that are using COVID as a scapegoat to stop over-consumption as well as strip personal liberties. For more information on this theory read my report The REAL Agenda Behind COVID – DEMAND DESTRUCTION
Additionally Australia is currently facing environmental catastrophe.
The 2020 wild fires, droughts, and resource depletion (especially water depletion) has placed the nation in a very precarious position. The Powers That Be (TPTB) may have decided Australia needs to be brought to a stand-still to avoid the chaos and anarchy that will follow if their systems collapse. When you run out of water, reality gets really real, really quick!
Destruction of Our Liberties
Recently Canadian Constitutional Attorney Rocco Galati was interviewed about COVID lockdowns and was asked about Australia. He believes that country is a trial balloon for the west, and is an easy target because they can legally be ruled by what he called “Parliamentary Supremacy.” That can’t happen in Canada, America, or most European countries because the law-making bodies are not the supreme bodies of their respective countries. For example there cannot be congressional supremacy in the United States because it has been established that it is our Constitution, along with its Bill of Rights, which is the supreme law of the land in our republic.
Galati is absolutely correct. Australia has an easier time of destroying its citizens civil liberties since the citizenry has less to protect it. But paper is just paper. In the US we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights, but for the past 19 years I have watched our rights erode starting with 9/11, now entering hyper drive in the age of COVID.
August 24, 2020 — In Australia the province of Victoria was placed on the hardest COVID lockdown of any western nation thus far for a duration of 6 weeks. I wrote about that in a report titled Australia’s Medical Fasicism on August 5.
Now that lockdown is being extended up to 12 more months! Let’s review what that means:
Cannot travel more than 5 km from your home
Can only leave home to exercise 1 hour per day
Only one person can go shopping per family each day
All shopping is to be done within 5 km
No visitors allowed in your home.
Schooling 100% remote with rare exception
Shutting down all businesses
Shutting down all services
Shutting down all construction
Shutting down all warehouses
Can’t leave Victoria
Global Warming & Resource Depletion
As I reported on August 5, I believe the true goal of this lockdown is demand destruction. Keeping people in place on lockdown will stop consumption of many resources especially oil and gas for travel. As the global elites continue to worry about Global Warming and resource depletion, I believe the lockdowns are the plan they are implementing to address it in secret, using COVID as cover.
Recently on WBAI 99.5fm radio in NYC a young eco-activist was being interviewed. When the COVID lockdown in New York was discussed she was very happy to state, “Everything we did during the lockdown in New York is exactly what environmental activists have been saying we need to do for years!” I believe she inadvertently hit the nail on the head with that statement. There are forces at play that are using COVID as a scapegoat to stop over-consumption as well as strip personal liberties. For more information on this theory read my report The REAL Agenda Behind COVID – DEMAND DESTRUCTION
Additionally Australia is currently facing environmental catastrophe.
The 2020 wild fires, droughts, and resource depletion (especially water depletion) has placed the nation in a very precarious position. The Powers That Be (TPTB) may have decided Australia needs to be brought to a stand-still to avoid the chaos and anarchy that will follow if their systems collapse. When you run out of water, reality gets really real, really quick!
Destruction of Our Liberties
Recently Canadian Constitutional Attorney Rocco Galati was interviewed about COVID lockdowns and was asked about Australia. He believes that country is a trial balloon for the west, and is an easy target because they can legally be ruled by what he called “Parliamentary Supremacy.” That can’t happen in Canada, America, or most European countries because the law-making bodies are not the supreme bodies of their respective countries. For example there cannot be congressional supremacy in the United States because it has been established that it is our Constitution, along with its Bill of Rights, which is the supreme law of the land in our republic.
Galati is absolutely correct. Australia has an easier time of destroying its citizens civil liberties since the citizenry has less to protect it. But paper is just paper. In the US we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights, but for the past 19 years I have watched our rights erode starting with 9/11, now entering hyper drive in the age of COVID.