Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is facing calls to end the state’s night-time curfew immediately, after it was revealed that the unprecedented restriction was not based on medical advice.
Chief health officer Brett Sutton dramatically threw Mr Andrews under the bus yesterday, making the explosive claimMitchell teed up Professor Sutton by asking if the Victorian Government had ever “introduced something without your advice, or against your advice”.
“No not against my advice, you know, the curfew came in as part of the state of disaster, for example, it wasn’t a state of emergency requirement,” Prof Sutton replied. “So you know, that was something that was introduced, but it wasn’t something I was against from a public health perspective.” At his daily press conference on Tuesday, Mr Andrews admitted that the curfew makes “the job of the Victoria Police much easier”.“I can’t pinpoint the individual and the day, I can’t give you a specific person,” he said, again adding “it makes the job of police much easier”.Victorian CHO Brett Sutton says the curfew was not part of his medical advice. Picture: Daniel Pockett/NCA Newswire
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Andrews’ non-medically advised state curfew is ‘another serious concern’ | Sky News AustraliaLiberal Senator Sarah Henderson says the revelations which revealed Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ curfew laws were not based off medical advice 'is another very serious concern about the Victorian government's management of this issue'. \n\nIn an exchange between Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton and Neil Mitchell on radio station 3AW, Professor Sutton revealed the curfew in the state wasn’t based on his advice.\n\n“For quite a long time I have been questioning whether the Victorian government has been able to justify all of the emergency restrictions,” Ms Henderson told Sky News host Chris Kenny.\n\n“It’s now clear that this curfew was not imposed based off medical expert advice, including from the chief health officer.\n\n“This is another very serious concern about the Victorian government’s management of this issue.”\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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‘Extraordinary revelations’ over pandemic and Victoria’s lockdowns surface | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says “two extraordinary revelations” surfaced on Tuesday when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic and what’s happening in Victoria. \n\nMr Kenny said the two revelations were “crucial” because they help put the threat of the virus in perspective and demonstrate that some of the lockdown measures in Victoria, especially the curfew, are just random, overbearing and unnecessary. \n\nMr Kenny said in what was an “amazing exchange” between Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton and Neil Mitchell on radio station 3AW, the Professor revealed the curfew in the state wasn’t based on his advice. \n\n“I was consulted on it, but it was a separate decision making pathway,” Professor Sutton said. \n\n'Remember the Premier, Daniel Andrews keeps saying he has no alternative, he is taking the only road that he possibly can, and that he's following the data and he's following the medical advice,' Mr Kenny said. \n\n'Well he imposed a curfew on Melbourne, he locked Victorians in their homes every night for three months, and this move is not based on medical advice'. \n\nMr Kenny also said there was another 'important medical revelation' from Brett Sutton on Tuesday. \n\n“He revealed what many of us know but so many politicians and most of the media ignore, and that is that apart from being elderly, virtually everyone who dies from coronavirus has a co-morbidity, another serious health issue,” Mr Kenny said. \n\n“Now this is not to downplay the deaths, of course, but this is important when it comes to the public risk, the methods used to suppress the disease in the community, and the failures to protect vulnerable people such as those in aged care homes”. \n\nImage: Getty
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