Victoria’s stage 3 coronavirus restrictions raise MP concerns about civil liberties, ‘stupid’ measures

By Jessica Longbottom, 📷: (AAP: Scott Barbour)
Victorian crossbenchers have called on the Government to immediately review some of the most draconian regulations put in place to suppress the spread of coronavirus, including directions prohibiting people sitting alone in public spaces and going fishing.
The Reason Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens said many of the restrictions around solitary activities, or activities conducted as a household that abided by social distancing, needed to be fine-tuned to make them sustainable for the long-term…
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Fiona Patten, the leader of the Reason Party, said while the Government had been doing a good job at stopping the spread of COVID-19, common sense had to prevail around some of the more extreme measures that had been put in place.
“If someone is driving their car to put their baby to sleep, that should be OK,” Ms Patten said.
“If someone lives in a small apartment, with very little natural light, it should be OK for them to sit in a park and read a book.
“Those are the sorts of infringements on our civil liberties that we need to ensure do not continue.
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