A bill to be tabled on Tuesday will mean an independent committee will scrutinise key government decisions and chief health officer no longer has final say on how Victoria handles a pandemic. covid19 pandemic springst
The state’s chief health officer will no longer have the final say on how Victoria handles a pandemic, an independent committee will scrutinise key government decisions and public health advice will be consistently made public under a bill to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.
Greens leader Samantha Ratnam, one of the crossbench MPs involved in discussions, said the new laws were a “big improvement and much fairer for the whole Victorian community” in place of the “blunt instrument” of state of emergency powers. A bureaucrat working on the bill accidentally circulated its summary to opposition and crossbench MPs on Monday evening, the night before Health Minister Martin Foley was hoping to unveil the details.
Police will only be able to access QR-code check-in data, widely collected as the state reopens, if there is an imminent threat to someone’s life and they acquire a Supreme Court order.emerged in June that Victoria Police had made three preliminary, unsuccessful requests for check-in data.“I am encouraged that we will see a level of transparency that we haven’t seen in any jurisdiction and certainly it is something that is important to me if I am to support any legislation,” she said.
He said the Coalition would introduce an amendment that would prevent the powers being extended for more than a month without being approved by Parliament.
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