Police have 104 more people for breaching COVID-19 restrictions across Victoria, including a group caught playing poker.
Drivers on one major St Kilda thoroughfare were stopped and asked their reason for travel on Saturday morning.
"If we were just dealing with ones where there was a genuine question of interpretation, that's fine, but some of the examples that the commissioner cited yesterday, there's no interpretation. That's just not the right thing.", after they were sprung in a Dandenong backyard, after members of the birthday party had gone to KFC and bought 20 meals.
"Instead, follow them. We all have to do that. We don't have the luxury of ignoring the reality we face, nor of thinking 'there's some other strategy that will just drive these numbers down so it doesn't matter if I'm not compliant'," he said.
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