‘I feel a bit like a dog returning to eat its own vomit,’ explained Victoria’s Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius, to general approval from the usual excited press pack. It was an unusual metaphor, but perhaps a revealing one too. Intended as a reference to his police force yet again having to deal with public protests against the most draconian curfew currently in place across the planet, and his displeasure at having to order them to do so, it succeeded in conveying his frustration at those who refuse to simply obey the ‘no protesting during lockdown’ decree.