If you’re in Victoria and can hear a cracking sound, it’s because The Spectator Australia has dealt some mighty blows to Daniel Andrews preposterous COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Amendment Bill.

Last Friday Ian Hanke, writing in these pages, exclusively revealed the Bill would allow citizens to be detained indefinitely and give sweeping powers to untrained people to become “authorised officers” with sweeping powers to arrest and detain fellow Victorians.