Vic Daniel Andrews and the Statue of Limitations

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Actually it can be in part. Quarantine is a federal government responsibility.
The dearth of leadership was filled in by the States where the most progressive Premier Dan, lead the way, love him or hate him I was enthralled watching his pressers each day. Where today working from home in Melbourne is the norm and not the exception.
 
The loss of a myriad of arguments around our COVID response.

I could give two ****s about politics; I with a few others, were interested in at least scrutinising some of the more draconian measures, the lengths and severity of lockdowns and Victoria's apparently limitless budget.

As an prime example, Dan taped up playgrounds like there was a murder there, all because he had a tantrum one day about parents getting too chummy at a safe distance outdoors, chatting over their flat whites while the kids played.

And if you dare questioned the Supreme Leader, you got made to feel like you being against the measure was that you were basically in favour of putting a flame thrower through every aged care facility in Melbourne.

This line of argument against those who were in favour of health measures (ie. we weren't anti-vaxxers), was relentless. And all the while all we asked for was a little measured scrutiny and have been proven to be correct in this report, various admissions by Sutton (who was used as a pawn) and via our eye-wateringly high debt.
cooker eh?
 

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cooker eh?

"Cookers" protest when they should stay home, piss on the Shrine, decry "Plandemic", worship David Icke and talk about Reptilian overlords.

Most of us in here challenging some of the restrictions, but mostly agreeing with the crux of the issues, don't exactly fit the "cooker" bill.

If there was a plus side of the main lockdown of 2021, it allowed plenty of time for some of us Pies fans (current President included) to fight to finally attain a meaningful vote for the members after years of Eddie autocracy. Gave us a new lease on life and we've benefited from that rough period ever since.
 
Actually it can be in part. Quarantine is a federal government responsibility.

Yep! As conceded, the Feds were a part of the issue. Just nothing like the omnishambles of the Vic Gov though.

Out of interest, what was the end percentage of repatriated Australians who came back through the Kingsford Smith airport and the Berejiklian government's hotel quarantine?
 
I love that I live in your head rent free!
Err, that's not the end of my body you reside. But I bet you love it nevertheless.

And just for the lols I'm gonna take off the 'ignore' tag on your posts for a while. Just so I can be reminded of the end line of one of the favourite novels from my youth...

'I've done you before haven't I?'
 

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Mr Andrews and his wife Catherine, who was driving at the time, have consistently held that cyclist Ryan Meuleman was at fault, with Mr Andrews telling reporters in 2017 that the teen was “moving at speed’’ when he “absolutely T-boned the car”.

And in his statement to police signed on February 5, 2013 at Springvale police station, Mr Andrews said “I want to make it clear - the cyclist hit our vehicle”.


Seems the audio may be different to the police statement
 
They are not a major secret, recordings can be obtained for any call through FOI

Was Catherine tending to the kid and calling 000 at the same time with an accurate address description after supposedly being the driver who hit the boy (or had the boy hit him) and potentially in some shock herself?

If so, what the hell was Dan doing and why did he double up on the call?

Or was there a mystery third-party witness?
 
They are not a major secret, recordings can be obtained for any call through FOI
Err no.

Section 63 of the Triple Zero Victoria Act 2023 sets out clear restrictions on who can access those recordings - they are unable to be released without the express consent of any other relevant person(s) or organisation(s) identified in the call.

To request a triple zero call audio recording, you need to be:
  • the person who made the call (or their legal guardian or agent), or
  • the lawful guardian or next of kin of a person who made a call, who is either a child or is deceased, or
  • a person who is a subject of the Triple Zero Victoria call where the caller has provided consent or cannot be identified.
There are obvious confidentiality reasons for these restrictions.

For example, a politician using Parliamentary privilege to publicly release details of a 000 call for political reasons might reduce the chances of people in future calling the 000 number to report an accident, fire or crime knowing that their personal details and recording of the call could become front page news.

The question of how this particular recording was obtained by a politician and then read into Hansard and provided to particular news organisations (or maybe it happened the other way around as we have seen in this country before) seems to me to be a legitimate and important question.
 
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Would the recording have been made available to the late Dr Raymond Shuey's Expert Review that alleged alleges that authorities engaged in an “overt cover-up to avoid implicating a political figure in a life-threatening crash” and would the information be available via a FOI request for evidence that way?
 
Err no.

Section 63 of the Triple Zero Victoria Act 2023 sets out clear restrictions on who can access those recordings - they are unable to be released without the express consent of any other relevant person(s) or organisation(s) identified in the call.

To request a triple zero call audio recording, you need to be:
  • the person who made the call (or their legal guardian or agent), or
  • the lawful guardian or next of kin of a person who made a call, who is either a child or is deceased, or
  • a person who is a subject of the Triple Zero Victoria call where the caller has provided consent or cannot be identified.
There are obvious confidentiality reasons for these restrictions.

For example, a politician using Parliamentary privilege to publicly release details of a 000 call for political reasons might reduce the chances of people in future calling the 000 number to report an accident, fire or crime knowing that their personal details and recording of the call could become front page news.

The question of how this particular recording was obtained by a politician and then read into Hansard and provided to particular news organisations (or maybe it happened the other way around as we have seen in this country before) seems to me to be a legitimate and important question.

Yet I’ve completed FOI requests for them in the past…

But you’ll also hear them on TV shows
 

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