As foreshadowed by The Spectator Australia yesterday union officials could be appointed as authorised officers under Victoria’s draconian Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill.
Premier Daniel Andrews made his intention clear yesterday when responding to an open letter by 18 eminent jurists who criticised the Bill.
He said the Bill:
[E]xtends some arrangements, it deals with some other gaps that have become evident over the course of the last six or seven months…
There are things like giving to additional authorised officers powers, so we can have more of them doing more work, so not just police, trying to spread the enforcement role which takes many different forms,...
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