Lockdown returns: how far can coronavirus measures go before they infringe on human rights?
- Written by Stan Winford, Associate Director, Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University
DANIEL POCKETT/AAPAs of this morning, ten “hot spot” postcodes in Melbourne’s suburbs have gone back into Stage 3 coronavirus lockdown.
In these suburbs, stay-at-home restrictions will be enforced by police patrols, “booze bus”-style barriers and random checks in transport corridors. In what Premier Daniel Andrews...