Everyone is free to use all of the information on this page, whether you’re a journalist, writer, YouTuber, influencer, etc. I’ve spent weeks compiling all of this, so I hope you find it useful.
I think this video says it all:
“She did not receive a fine for failing to wear a face covering because she later told police she had an exemption,” the spokeswoman said.
More of this violence and thuggery, this man was pepper-sprayed for no good reason:
There are even more videos like this down below in the article.
We, the people of Melbourne, are in a totalitarian hellhole & a total police state. I’ve been doing my best to post about it and get the word out (posting on Reddit, contacting journalists, tweeting) but I don’t have a lot of reach/clout. Please share this with as many people as you can.
I fear for us. There is no freedom. Police are now able to enter our homes without a warrant – we zero freedom. We have no sovereignty. No rights. Nowhere we can be safe.
Essentially they’re saying, “You never get to feel safe EVER – not even in your own home.”
I myself have slipped into depression and sadly lost my sobriety for a few weeks – thankfully I’m sober again. But my mental health is suffering, life has very little meaning – everything that brought me joy has been made illegal. I can’t even go outside – everybody is on edge, neighbours don’t trust each other, and the air is thick with hatred, distrust, malice… Evil.
Here’s a podcast I was on to talk about these issues:
Main Key Points:
- We’ve been in lockdown since March. Only 136 total deaths in Victoria (total pop: 6.359 million).
- Police can enter your home without a warrant.
- Can only exercise outside for 1hr per day, max.
- United Nations is against “isolation for 22-23hrs a day, for longer than 15 days”. Current restrictions are more than this.
- Only 1 person may leave the house per household per day.
- Friends and family cannot visit each other.
- 8pm-5am curfew.
- Daniel Andrews (Victorian Premier)’s advisers were known CCP members spreading disinformation about COVID (sources below).
- $1652 fine if outside without a “valid” reason – we must show a permit to go to work, with police/military stopping people and questioning them as to why they’re outside.
- $4957 fine if breaching quarantine; $20,000 for a second offence.
- $200 fine for no mask (masks are mandatory everywhere, even outside). People have been arrested for not wearing one.
- Masks will likely be mandatory “for many years to come”.
- Cannot go more than 5km from your home for any reason except work.
- We can’t even leave the state and live somewhere else – borders are locked, with police checkpoints.
- Over 3000 people were placed in house arrest for more than 2 weeks.
- Daniel Andrews has literally said his goal is to do “damage” to the economy (source below).
- Welfare state: It’s predicted nearly 50% of Victoria’s private sector workers will be on some form of government welfare.
- Daniel Andrews grossly mishandled a “hotel quarantine” by hiring cheap security contractors who had sex with already-infected people.
- Mandatory vaccines look to be on the agenda (source below).
- Cannot protest – many organisers have been arrested for just planning protests that hadn’t even gone ahead yet.
- Neighbours have turned on each other, with hotlines where people can “dob each other in”.
- 250,000 people lost their jobs in one single week (Aug 4th).
- Schools all closed, despite a huge study showing COVID does not transmit amongst schoolchildren. Most childcare centres closed.
- The ADF (military) have been deployed and are door-knocking and interrogating people on the street.
- Weddings are illegal, gatherings of more than 2 people are illegal, protests are illegal.
- Over $5.2 million in fines given out in Australia so far (Aug 4th).
- Job losses expected between 250,000-400,000 people in Victoria (population 6.359 million).
- Professor Ian Hickie predicts a 25% increase in suicides in Australia due to lockdowns for the next 5 years – an additional 750 suicides per year.
- Victoria has recorded a 33 per cent rise in children presenting to hospital with self-harm injuries over the past six weeks.
- Critically-ill (dying) hospital patients are being denied visitation from their families.
- Police are using drones to spy on people and catch them breaking curfew.
- 46. A woman fled Victoria and was jailed for 6 months for leaving the state. Two other men were jailed for 1 month each for breaking quarantine (they had not tested positive for COVID):We’ve been in lockdown since March. Only 136 total deaths in Victoria (total pop: 6.359 million).
- Police can enter your home without a warrant.
- Can only exercise outside for 1hr per day, max.
- United Nations is against “isolation for 22-23hrs a day, for longer than 15 days”. Current restrictions are more than this.
- Only 1 person may leave the house per household per day.
- Friends and family cannot visit each other.
- 8pm-5am curfew.
- Daniel Andrews (Victorian Premier)’s advisers were known CCP members spreading disinformation about COVID (sources below).
- $1652 fine if outside without a “valid” reason – we must show a permit to go to work, with police/military stopping people and questioning them as to why they’re outside.
- $4957 fine if breaching quarantine; $20,000 for a second offence.
- $200 fine for no mask (masks are mandatory everywhere, even outside). People have been arrested for not wearing one.
- Masks will likely be mandatory “for many years to come”.
- Cannot go more than 5km from your home for any reason except work.
- We can’t even leave the state and live somewhere else – borders are locked, with police checkpoints.
- Over 3000 people were placed in house arrest for more than 2 weeks.
- Daniel Andrews has literally said his goal is to do “damage” to the economy (source below).
- Welfare state: It’s predicted nearly 50% of Victoria’s private sector workers will be on some form of government welfare.
- Daniel Andrews grossly mishandled a “hotel quarantine” by hiring cheap security contractors who had sex with already-infected people.
- Mandatory vaccines look to be on the agenda (source below).
- Cannot protest – organisers were arrested for just planning a protest (the protest hadn’t even gone ahead yet).
- Neighbours have turned on each other, with hotlines where people can “dob each other in”.
- 250,000 people lost their jobs in one single week (Aug 4th).
- Schools all closed, despite a huge study showing COVID does not transmit amongst schoolchildren. Most childcare centres closed.
- The ADF (military) have been deployed and are door-knocking and interrogating people on the street.
- Weddings are illegal, gatherings of more than 2 people are illegal, protests are illegal.
- Over $5.2 million in fines given out in Australia so far (Aug 4th).
- Job losses expected between 250,000-400,000 people in Victoria (population 6.359 million).
- Professor Ian Hickie predicts a 25% increase in suicides in Australia due to lockdowns for the next 5 years – an additional 750 suicides per year.
- Victoria has recorded a 33 per cent rise in children presenting to hospital with self-harm injuries over the past six weeks.
- Critically-ill (dying) hospital patients are being denied visitation from their families.
- Police are using drones to spy on people and catch them breaking curfew.
- A woman fled Victoria and was jailed for 6 months for leaving the state. Two other men were jailed for 1 month each for breaking quarantine (they had not tested positive for COVID).
- Many people were arrested (violently) at a protest.
Here’s some press writeup/videos of the situation:
- Madness in Melbourne (by Jeffrey A. Tucker from the AIER)
- Melbourne’s lockdown is labelled the worst EVER breach of Aussie freedoms
Here’s all the information (with sources) I’ve put together:
Extended points (with sources):
1. We have been in lockdown since March, even though we barely have any COVID deaths. Bare in mind as you read everything I’m about to tell you, only 136 people died in the state of Victoria (total population is 6.359 million), Accurate as of 4th Aug. Almost all of the deaths are 80yo+.
2. Police may now enter your home without a warrant if you’re supposed to be quarantining (they’re doing random “spot checks”, doorknocking on people’s homes at random times whenever they feel like it.
3. Can only exercise for 1hr per day, max. All sports & community activities are banned.
4. On that note, the United Nations is against prolonged solitary confinement, especially in cases where the person has “mental disabilities”. Quote: “Solitary confinement shall refer to the confinement of prisoners for 22 hours or more a day without meaningful human contact. Prolonged solitary confinement shall refer to solitary confinement for a time period in excess of 15 consecutive days.”
Furthermore: “The imposition of solitary confinement should be prohibited in the case of prisoners with mental or physical disabilities when their conditions would be exacerbated by such measures.”
Furthermore: “Solitary confinement shall be used only in exceptional cases as a last resort, for as short a time as possible and subject to independent review, and only pursuant to the authorization by a competent authority”
Given right now there are people without a partner and without friends and without work, being forced to stay home for 22 hours or more a day (only 1hr of exercise + 1 trip to the grocery store is permitted), these people are being tortured against UN regulations/recommendations.”
Bare in mind the current “Stage 4” lockdowns are for 6 weeks (who knows if it will then be extended further). You can easily make the case that being confined to your own home & only being allowed out for 1hr a day is torture – especially for single people who are living by themselves.
These lockdowns and solitary confinement for single people without a partner were definitely not used “as a last resort”.
https://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/Nelson_Mandela_Rules-E-ebook.pdf
https://news.un.org/en/story/2011/10/392012-solitary-confinement-should-be-banned-most-cases-un-expert-says
5. Daniel Andrews (Victorian Premier) happily admits his mission is to do damage to the economy: “[In regards to the economy] So there is significant damage that needs to be done here, but there is no choice but to do that damage.”
6. Over 3000 thousand people were placed under house arrest and unable to leave for ANY reason, and couldn’t have ANY visitors, because a few people in their buildings had COVID, with food rations delivered by the army (google “Melbourne towers lockdown”). But the vast majority of the people in that building did not have COVID. So these people were detained and imprisoned against their will, without having committed any crime. They were also given rotten food, and Muslim people were given pork.
7. Job losses expected between 250,000-400,000 people (so far – Aug 4th) in the state of Victoria alone. “Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chief Executive Paul Guerra describing the projected effect as “devastating and long-lasting.”
8. Everybody needs special papers to travel to work, like some Soviet Union dystopia. Police and military are stopping people and questioning them as to why they’re outside.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-02/victoria-coronavirus-state-of-disaster-explained/12516570
9. Can’t visit any family or friends – not even in your own home. Even though socialising is a basic human need.
10. Only one person per household, per day can leave the house (including for groceries).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-02/victorias-latest-coronavirus-restrictions-explained/12516182
11. $1652 fine if outside without “a valid reason”. Including a 17yo girl who was fined while in her car with her mother (the charge was later withdrawn, but what a horrific experience for this young girl).
https://web.archive.org/web/20200425223627if_/https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/vic-driver-fined-over-covid-19-rules-c-958222
12. $4957 if breaching quarantine plus up to $20,000 for repeat offence.
13. $200 fine for no mask (Mandatory masks at all times). People have been arrested for not wearing one – even when they have a valid medical reason (asthma). And on one particular day: “In total, police issued over $209,800 worth of fines [in one day].”
14. “Since March 21, a total of 193,740 spot checks have been conducted by police across Victoria.” (Accurate as of 4th Aug).
https://web.archive.org/web/20200803185334/https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/face-coverings-covid-19
15. Military is on the streets fining/arresting people, as well as “door-knocking” to make sure people stay home. They call this “Operation Sentinel” and “The Ring of Steel”:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200804005605/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zTtFNtnMdH4/maxresdefault.jpg
16. Curfew 8pm-5am, with the Premier Daniel Andrews bragging about how dead the city looks.
17. Police violence. Police bragged: “On at least four occasions in the last week, we’ve had to smash the windows of cars and pull people out to provide details because they weren’t adhering to the Chief Health Officer guidelines, they weren’t providing their name and address.”
This man was hit by a police car, and then had his head stomped while on the ground. He’s currently in a coma:
Masses of police violently moved in on unarmed citizens in a food market:
A woman was violently arrested just because she didn’t want to show ID – even though she was outside for a valid reason (exercising) and had committed no crime.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8669695/Police-hit-streets-massive-force-Melbourne.html
It’s not only in Victoria; in Western Australia, a man had his home raided by police because he didn’t want to take a COVID test (he showed no signs of having COVID):
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1297370053701074945.html
And “Victoria police accused of ‘violent assault’ on Indigenous man who alleges he was spear-tackled off bike”:
18. We can’t even leave the state and live somewhere else – borders are locked, with police checkpoints.
19. Can’t go more than 5km from your home.
20. Weddings are illegal. No gatherings of any more than 2 people outside.
21. In Victoria, 115 out of the 170 deaths were 80 or older. Accurate as of 6th Aug. (Average life expectancy in Australia is 82.5). These deaths should not even be counted as COVID deaths – they died of old age, sadly.
(Scroll down to “VIC Age Group”, deaths are shown in the right-hand column):
https://web.archive.org/web/20200806084252/https://covidlive.com.au/vic
22. Protests/activism is illegal; people have been arrested for organising protests that haven’t even happened yet.
23. Daniel Andrews (Victorian Premier) & Scott Morrison (Australian Prime Minister) are indicating vaccine will be mandatory: “…”Vaccine is developed and then administered to every single Victorian“.”
And “Scott Morrison is on air with Neil Mitchell. He says the Oxford vaccine, if distributed in Australia, would “be as mandatory as you can possibly make it”.”
On top of that, the vaccine company will not be held liable for any side-effects/complications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k_Bbj5WNIU&feature=emb_title
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN24V2EN?__twitter_impression=true
24. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members advising Daniel Andrews: “In June 2020, The Australian reported that a long-serving staffer and a senior adviser of Daniel Andrews were members of a front organisation of the Chinese Communist Party.[15][16][17] The staffer studied at the Chinese Academy of Governance, a high-level training institution for officials of the Chinese Communist Party.[18] The staffer was active in spreading disinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]” – Wikipedia article on Daniel Andrews.
The CCP has also used “bots” to tweet support for Daniel Andrews.
(These sources are behind a paywall):
25. Media is extremely biased, calls protesters “right wing conspiracy nutjobs” and won’t allow discussion of whether these lockdowns are right or not.
26. Over $5.2 million in fines in Australia so far according to an ABC news report (accurate as of 4th Aug).
27. Streets of Melbourne are empty, even in a city of 5 million+ people. People are HATEFUL to each other, everyone is cannibalising their neighbours (calling police to report any little infraction of the rules and turning on each other like some socialist hellhole).
28. Propaganda billboards everywhere outside that say in capital letters: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? STAY HOME.” They feel extremely oppressive, like we’re being yelled at by a fascist, hateful government that can’t even disguise it’s contempt for its own citizens.
29. A “tracing/tracking app” was implemented and was a complete sham – it didn’t work when released (people couldn’t even use it on iPhones). They used it to blackmail us too – “If everyone downloads the app, we’ll come out of lockdown. Otherwise, lockdowns will be extended.”
30. The Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews shows complete and utter disdain for us, constantly blaming us. He’s blamed everyone including the youth for not taking this seriously enough. Every chance he gets, he tells us it’s OUR fault the virus is spreading (even though that’s what viruses do – they spread). Example quote: “But to people who are younger: If you want to get past these restrictions.. If you want to get past these restrictions.. follow the rules.”
He also continually moves the goalposts and blackmails his citizens with threats of extended lockdowns. Example from 19th August: “Premier Daniel Andrews has warned stage four restrictions will not be eased if coronavirus testing rates continue to decline, even if case numbers fall.”
On the above point, Daniel Amdrews wants more of us to go get tested. More tests would make case numbers go up (since you find more positives). Not to mention tonnes of people leaving their homes to go get tested would spread the virus more. So is he directly stating he wants case numbers to go up?
31. Daniel Andrews grossly mishandled a “hotel quarantine” by hiring cheap security contractors who had sex with infected people and spread the disease. Source below. (On this point, I don’t like the idea of forced hotel quarantining – it’s like prison. But this still shows his utter incompetence).
32. 1984 dystopian language: billboards everywhere saying, “Staying apart keeps us together.” Have they gone mad?
33. Neighbours “dobbing each other in” and cannibalising each other like some gestapo/stasi nightmare. 600 calls a day (that was back in April – the amount is likely much higher now in August). True communism, where the people turn on each other.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200727005105/https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/police-hotline-swamped-with-covid-19-calls-as-victorians-dob-in-neighbours-20200408-p54i5g.html
34. All schools are closed in the entire state of Victoria. Almost all childcare centres are closed. This is despite: “One of the largest studies in the world on coronavirus in schools, carried out in 100 institutions in the UK, will confirm that “there is very little evidence that the virus is transmitted” there, according to a leading scientist.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pupils-pose-no-risk-of-spreading-covid-27q6zfd9l
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-02/coronavirus-changes-victorian-schools-and-child-care-explained/12516544
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-03/will-victorians-get-childcare-despite-tougher-coronavirus-measu/12519098
35. Daniel Andrews is the highest-paid Premier in the country: “In 2019, an independent tribunal granted Andrews an 11.8% salary increase, giving him a total salary of $441,000 and making him the highest-paid state premier in the country.”
The Minister for Health, Jenny Mikakos also received an 11.8% pay rise earlier this year, making her salary of $352,057 the equivalent of over 7 times the median salary. Meanwhile, according to an Institute of Public Affairs poll, 60% of 18-34 year olds had lost their job or had their pay cut.
“More than 40,000 Victorian public servants will pocket back to back pay rises before Christmas while as the state’s unemployment figures soar. 96% of employees voted to accept the new pay deal. They’ll have an increase backdated to March, then another come December.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/s_deery/status/1295325947646717952
36. Daniel Andrews has made it clear he does not care about human rights.
“Mr Andrews has very little time for human rights arguments, pointing out that not dying of coronavirus is a rather important right. ‘Seriously, one more comment about human rights – honestly. It is about human life,’ he said.”
Daniel Andrews has also taken plenty of money from China, and actively refused to talk about China’s human rights violations. (Source below).
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6161086218001
37. Professor Ian Hickie predicts a 25% increase in suicides in Australia for the next 5 years – an additional 750 suicides per year. More than the death toll of COVID-19. (Note: this is a prediction, but still something to be concerned about – and not something I hear many journalists talking about).
38. Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg predicted that nearly 50% of Victoria’s private sector workers will be on government welfare.
39. Victoria has recorded a 33 per cent rise in children presenting to hospital with self-harm injuries over the past six weeks. The Lifeline Hotline received 25 per cent more calls than this time last year, the equivalent of one call every 30 seconds.
40. Masks will likely be mandatory for many years to come.
41. Critically-ill (dying) hospital patients are being denied visitation from their families.
42. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were instrumental in spreading fear and panic and pushing for lockdowns all around the world, using over 170,000 provably fake “bot” accounts on Twitter alone – including many praising Daniel Andrews’ lockdown measures:
43. Daniel Andrews & the media are lying about/completely ignoring comorbidities and instead always reporting each death as a death from COVID, instead of a death with COVID.
Even though the vast majority of “COVID deaths” are people with pre-existing illnesses. Example from the UK:
Another example, Italy: “More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority.”
44. The goalposts are constantly being moved, with no hope for things to get better. Even as case numbers go down, restrictions keep going up. Case in point, on the 16th August 2020:
Daniel Andrews: “The state’s stabilising numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases are a cause for “optimism and real hope”‘.
Daniel Andrews then went on to say: “The state of Emergency in Victoria will be extended for four weeks… to Sunday 13 September 2020. Victoria Police has strong powers to enforce these directions and can issue on the spot fines for breaches of stay at home directions.”
https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/1294838006524780544/photo/1
https://twitter.com/i/events/1294810983865569280
45. Police are using drones to spy on people and catch them breaking curfew.
https://mobile.twitter.com/7NewsMelbourne/status/1295245381735813120
46. A woman fled Victoria and was jailed for 6 months for leaving the state. Two other men were jailed for 1 month each for breaking quarantine (they had not tested positive for COVID):
47. Many people were arrested (violently) at a protest on 5th September, 2020:
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There’s probably more but at this point I honestly start to lose track of all the insanity that’s happened.
You have no idea how much it would mean if you share this story with anyone you can. To me, to the people of Victoria and greater Australia. We’re living under full-on fascism and there’s nobody here to save us.
If you’d like to contact me for more information, or to hear more of my story, or even if you want an interview to help me spread the word of the hell were enduring in Melbourne – get in touch here.
Thank you. I mean that sincerely.
-Andy from Melbourne
Thank you for this comprehensive page. What is the status in Victoria now, almost two months on? Better, worse? I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping you might post and update.
Victoria is a shitload worse now. Here’s an update my girlfriend and I did, talking about where things are at:
Day 59: I Need to Pay My Bills, & Moving to a New City
Damn Andy I had no idea things were this crazy in Australia. I’m my country we have the opposite problem, almost no real action was taken by the goverment nor by the people and the virus spred like crazy (We are currently the 5th most infected and 4th with most deaths or close).
What really makes my head spin though is China’s intervention in all of this. Makes me wonder many things.
Yep it’s insane. I’m making plans to get out of here though; will post an update when I’m done.
shit Andy… this is very fucked up.
Things here in Argentina are bad too… but what you are telling me is worse. Australia is more developed than Argentina but… here is not THAT bad (it’s horrible though)
If you need to talk or something just send me an email.
All good mate. I appreciate that. I’m already putting plans in place to escape this hellhole.
-Andy
Thank you for exposing this to the world. We read it on paper. Different to see it put in action. Amazing, and a good thing, you’ve not had a violent revolution the way people normally respond to such flagrant abuse.
Thanks.
I’m surprised we haven’t had more violence – most people here seem to WANT more lockdowns and more oppression and more fascism. We don’t seem to have the desire for individual freedom/liberty people in the US have. We’re a lot more socialist/collectivist here.
I’ve already planned out how my girlfriend and I will move to the USA as soon as all this opens up again. Australia – particularly Melbourne – is dead to us now.
Observing in horror from Canada. I am so sorry for what is happening to you people. I’m otherwise speechless.
Yeah, it’s absolutely nuts. I’m getting the sense the tide of public perception is turning though, especially with the recent police violence. A lot of people who were previously trusting the government are now starting to say, “Wait… This is kinda fucked up actually.”
-Andy
I figured that being exposed to an increasingly horrific spate of police violence, perhaps even receiving it directly, might be what shifts lockdown-lovers’ minds. In your comment above four days later you say that you still think most people in your area still want fascism… sorry your hopes have gone down!