Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:44): My question is for the Premier. Up until Tuesday the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines stated that the COVID-normal threshold was 28 days of no new cases and no active cases statewide and no other outbreaks of concern interstate. That threshold has now magically gone, along with all clarity and assurance to my electorate that our lives will be able to return to normal in the near future. The people of Western Victoria are sick and tired of being dictated to by bureaucrats in Melbourne on how to run their businesses and their lives. With the removal of this threshold many will be rightly concerned about a possible intention to keep them locked up in perpetuity, so I ask the Premier: when will we move to COVID normal and unlock Western Victoria, and further, given that the threshold caveats have now disappeared, can he confirm if there are new thresholds as opposed to just vague terms like ‘medical advice’?