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Criminalisation And Covid-19
On Saturday July 4th Daniel Andrews’ government announced on national television that there would be a hard lockdown of Melbourne’s nine public housing towers, effective immediately. As his announcement (presumably for the benefit of Melbournians not living in the public housing estates) streamed into living rooms around the country, armed police streamed into the homes of residents in the Kensington, North Melbourne and Flemington public housing estates. This was at the same time both unprecedented and unsurprising. It was an extraordinary, aggressive and discriminatory use of the state’s coercive powers in a move that is entirely consistent with the Daniel [...]
