Premier Daniel Andrews has taken aim at Victorians who still hold a very dangerous belief about the state's second COVID-19 wave.
Premier Daniel Andrews has said he can't see a point in the future when rules won't be needed to ensure anyone who gets the virus stays home.
"The easiest and best example is I can never see a time when someone who gets this won't be required to moderate their own personal behaviour," he said. He highlighted how important the legal authority to ensure infected people isolate was to getting Victoria to start opening up again.
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