Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:42): My constituency question is for the Premier. A constituent wrote to me this week who owns a cafe inside a shopping centre in the Bellarine Peninsula. If you walk down the main street, go across the street to any shop or to a cafe down the road, no mask is required, but at this cafe a mask is required, because it is inside a shopping centre, even if nobody else is around at 5.30 am. My constituent has already received negative feedback from customers about the mask requirement of his cafe. Small disadvantages such as this can significantly impact small businesses, unbeknown to this government that is deprived of any private sector experience. My question to the Premier is: when will the face mask mandate be removed entirely?