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ARTICLE · 30 JULY 2020

Should protests be banned during COVID-19?

Failure to comply with a Public Health Direction, without reasonable excuse, can result in imprisonment and/or a fine.

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It's been a week of clashes in Victoria over new public health regulations, starting with  Eve Black flouting rules at the border checkpoint last weekend, by refusing to tell Police her reason for travelling.

Aside from copping a serious amount of public flack on social media, after posting a video showing her interaction with police, police also say they will track her down, and if she is found to be in breach of the law, then she will be fined.

Another video showed a dispute between Victoria Police and a woman who claimed that coronavirus laws did not apply to her, shows her saying that the police's attempts to take her into custody for not wearing a mask amounted to "armed kidnapping".

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