Originally Posted by
Turnleft080
Dan Andrews wants another 12 months of state of emergency till Sept 21. Power has now gone to his head.
The State of Emergency provisions under Vic's Public Health & Wellbeing Act allows directions to be made to reduce public health risk (such as: wearing of a face mask in public places, etc).
It can only currently be in place for a 6 month duration (that date is coming up very soon); the Vic government is proposing to make it a maximum of 18 months. Passing this bill would result in government spending less $$ drafting new legislation every time the State of Emergency lapses.
This is completely unrelated to the border closure (by NSW).