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Advertisement Police officers who issued fines for breaches of COVID-19 restrictions have been instructed to hand out cautions for unpaid infringements rather than proceed with charges in a move that the Police Association warns could undermine future enforcement of public health orders. More than 19,000 penalty notices were issued for breaches of chief health officer orders by October last year. The new direction would mean all but the most egregious offenders will avoid paying. A man is issue...

The car cavalcade was chosen as the form of protest because it was COVID-safe. Nevertheless, the police chose to regard the event as illegal under Victoria’s COVID-19 emergency regulations and 29 people were given infringement notices with a fine of $1652 each, bringing the total to nearly $50,000. Most of those who were fined intend to challenge the fines in court. Breen was arrested at his home before the cavalcade started and taken to Preston police station, where he was held for nine hour...

Refugee Action Collective spokesperson Chris Breen, who chaired the rally, said the asylum seekers should not be moved but freed and given a permanent home. Ged Kearney, Labor MP for the seat of Cooper, said that the detention of these refugees, who were brought to Australia under the now-repealed medevac law is “unlawful”. Gaetano Greco, deputy mayor of Darebin, said that the council is willing to organise local residents to take refugees into their homes if they are released. Samantha Rat...