The restrictions don't really effect me too much personally - it got me out of seeing the extended family over Easter this year which was very nice, I usually spend Easter in Adelaide away from them all
I'm yet to have involvement with the police even though I've been on the road more than ever for work, but I've been on my best behavior on the roads because there's a lot less people and it seems many more police all over our freeways at the moment
Do the restrictions effect me personally? Only a little, its just curbed the weekends, I'm not fussed on the effects on my own life but I don't agree with how Victoria Police has handled the situation.
Yes our State Government have had to do some 'policy on the run' to initially bring it under control and there is an appeal system. The whole idea about an appeal system is for extraordinary circumstances or a review, having an appeal system isn't a substitute for crappy legislation and authoritarian enforcement and then put the onus on the person faced with the massive fine to have it overturned when there is no accountability on the people handing them out.
Its a backwards way of addressing a problem, you need to address the problem at the beginning, not work from the result backwards and push everyone into the appeal system, don't **** it up royally in the first place.
I have issues with largely ambiguous legislation but I understand we cannot have it so refined and to the point, but that's not what I'm asking for.
If you want an example of ambiguous legislation you can harness as a weapon, I'm sure everyone has come across a unionised workplace where the health and safety rep uses Section 21 of the OHS Act 2004 as a nuclear weapon and cause dramas on their beck and call, you can just about get anyone on a contravention of s21 and disrupt a workplace or tie up management with a bureaucratic nightmare:
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'(1) An employer must, so far as is reasonably practicable, provide and maintain for employees of the employer a working environment that is safe and without risks to health.'
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There's a lot of brandying about this 'common sense' term, what is 'common sense'? Something that I consider 'common sense' seems is a light bulb moment for some of the retards I have to deal with or manage on a daily basis, I shouldn't have to spell everything out, hold peoples hands and tell them to wipe their *** after they take a ****, but no, I have to because otherwise things fall over the moment you stop spelling out the obvious.
Keep the $1600 fine, keep the restrictions but have some accountability over the questionable fines, if you keep slipping up like this then there should be repercussions, just like any other person is held to account everywhere else in our jobs.
Then there's the whole you can only do A,B C and D and everything else is banned, but hold up we can still run the horse racing industry and now real estate inspections are allowed but everyone else is still out of work and can't do anything? Or initially Crown Casino was let off the hook until Victorians started questioning everyone else being shut down except Crown Casino and its epic gambling facilities being allowed to run?
The State Government and Victoria Police need to do better, its not a case of needing more resources, its a case of using the existing resources you have more efficiently.