While the rest of the world moves on and ditches Covid for its new fling ‘Monkey Pox’ – Australia is determined to cement the pandemic into permanent law.

It’s not only the ‘please please please wear masks’ social media hypochondriacs that we have to worry about. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews recently expanded his controversial emergency powers (laws that saw his government compared to a dictatorship for ‘ruling by decree’ in an open letter from Victorian QCs and judges) for three more months – something he can do essentially on a whim.