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Negotiations on Victoria’s proposed pandemic bill will gather pace after high-level meetings between the government and crossbench MPs on Thursday.

Negotiations on Victoria’s proposed pandemic bill will gather pace after high-level meetings between the government and crossbench MPs on Thursday.

Protests have been taking place in Melbourne against Victorian government’s proposed Pandemic Bill.  Victorian aged care workers must be fully vaccinated and about one million of the state’s essential workers in total will be required to be double-jabbed by November 26. The new pandemic laws, which will replace the state-of-emergency powers that expire on 15…

The Victorian government is scrambling to secure a vote to avoid seeing its controversial pandemic bill defeated, with debate on hold until at least Friday.

Victoria has recorded the deaths of four more people with Covid-19 and a further 1275 new infections.

Protesters are beginning to fill parts of Australian cities as part of nationwide protests against COVID-19...

Commentary Rising vaccination rates in Australia continue to edge most states towards ever more significant easing of restrictions ...

<strong>Jeremy Salt</strong> | In the dead of night, Australias most repressive state passes its most extreme Nazi-style legislation to date.

The president of the Victorian Bar has slammed the state's new pandemic legislation as “appalling". Top lawyers say the Victorian government's proposed pandemic laws will give politicians “a blank cheque to rule by decree" and run counter to basic democratic principles. Member for Caulfield and deputy leader of the opposition David Southwick,  spoke on L'Chaim, to explain just how…

Around 200 Australians have marched from Melbourne’s Footscray Park to the gates of the Flemington Racecourse during protests ...