Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:35): It has been widely reported since it first came to light last week during Public Accounts and Estimates Committee hearings that Victoria Police have been ardently attempting to gain access to the Service Victoria app QR code check-in data. Members may recall during the last lockdown in 2020 there were several cases in which Victoria Police used minor COVID infringements as impetus to suspend or cancel firearm owners’ licences specifically on the basis that putting your bins out after curfew or legitimately crossing the metropolitan-regional divide to tend livestock on your farm immediately precluded you from being a fit and proper person to possess firearms. Many of the victims of this significant police overreach were my law-abiding constituents. Can the minister guarantee that my constituents, and indeed every Victorian, will not be subjected to further invasions of their privacy by Victoria Police or any other agency, department or authorised officer?