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# Victoria to Extend “State of Emergency” until 2022
- URL: https://goodoil.news/victoria-to-extend-state-of-emergency-until-2022/
- Published: 2021-02-04T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-03T10:09:33.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: AUS Politics, COVID-19, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Scanning the annals of history, it’s rather telling that a bare handful of dictators, left or right, have voluntarily ceded their power. **Pinochet** or **King Juan Carlos I**, for instance, or **Daniel Ortega** or **Julius Nyerere**. Further back, perhaps **George Washington**, or his hero, Cincinnatus.

And, well…that’s it.

**These rare exceptions prove the rule that politicians who’ve become accustomed to absolute power almost never give it up voluntarily.** Even elected dictators, like Victorian premier **Daniel Andrews,** do everything they can to hold on to that sweet, sweet total authority.

One of their most common gambits is to exploit an “emergency”.

> The Victorian government has launched an attempt to extend the state of emergency until the end of the year.  
>  
> Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed on Tuesday the government would introduce a bill into parliament to extend Victoria’s state of emergency past its maximum legislated period of 12 months.

“Dictator Dan”, remember, is the first politician to ever impose a military curfew in Melbourne. Not even **Albert Dunstan** or **John Cain Sr**, during WWII when air-raid drills were a regular feature, so restricted the liberties of Victorians.

Of course, Andrews pinkie-promises that he’ll give it up. True dinks.

> The Premier declared a state of emergency in Victoria on March 16, 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.  
>  
> It has been extended in four-week periods since that date, but the government will need to pass new laws in order to extend it for longer than 12 months.  
>  
> The bill will attempt to extend the state of emergency until December 15 this year.

**Under this so-called “state of emergency”, Victoria is slipping deeper into not just an elected dictatorship, but an unelected dictatorship of the bureaucrats.**

> The state of emergency allows the chief health officer to legally introduce directions to help stop the spread of coronavirus, such as mask wearing and stay-at-home restrictions.  
>  
> Mr Andrews stressed that the bill would not mean new rules would suddenly be introduced.

**Sure, and hotel quarantine was going to work, too.**

> The Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 initially only allowed for a state of emergency to be extended to a maximum of six months.  
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> But the Andrews government negotiated a new coronavirus clause in September last year that saw the maximum period extended to 12 months in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic.  
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> They are now attempting to get the maximum period extended by a further nine months to a total of 21 months.  
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> [The Australian](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/coronavirus-victoria-dan-andrews-to-introduce-bill-to-extend-state-of-emergency/news-story/5cf8a0ebd534b915d2ad06be7b6026c8?ref=goodoil.news)

And after that?

We’ve gone from “flatten the curve” to “stay home” to “vaccinate or else”. Politicians have used the Wuhan plague as a public health Reichstag fire.

Welcome to the “new normal”.

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