Originally Posted by
Ben.
So things are going from bad to worse here in Melbourne, Australia. Our state premier is losing his "state of emergency" powers soon and is hastily pushing through new legislation that gives him and him alone the ability to decide if we are in a "pandemic", give himself emergency powers for 3 months at a time, which can be renewed indefinitely and he can prescribe control measures to "a person or class of person".
New legislation normally is publically on the table for two weeks, goes through the lower house of parliament, then another two weeks on the table before going through the upper house. A news outlet leaked this information late last night, it's going through the lower house today and he's trying to get it through the upper house this week also.
It feels like it's been too long since a good old fashioned political assassination....