Unreported or underreported by the Press thousands of Australians took to the streets of Melbourne to protest over both a vaccine mandate and a proposed bill that would give the state of Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews even more power to declare a pandemic and impose lockdowns.

The large group of protesters, which included children and the elderly, carried Australian flags and marched through Melbourne’s Central Business District on Saturday, calling for the dismissal of their premier with chants of ’Sack Dan Andrews!’

Craig Kelly, a United Australia Party MP for the Division of Hughes, NSW, took part in the protest and called for the premier powers bill to be killed. On social media, Kelly wrote that the demonstration stood ’against tyranny,’ ‘against dictators,’ and ’against human rights abusers’ in an apparent dig at Andrews.

Our correspondent in Melbourne says, ‘ I was present yesterday at the demonstration for freedom at the steps of the Victorian parliament. It was a great day for Australians and was a definitive statement by the people of Victoria that we are opposed to both the Pandemic Management Bill 2021, mandatory vaccination with dangerous gene therapy, and the tyrannical Andrews government.

I would estimate the size of the crowd to be between 70,000 to 80,000. For a city like Melbourne that is huge. There was not one hint of any violence or trouble, which proves the point that if police allow a peaceful demonstration, it remains peaceful! I think Australians are tired of having the government boot on our face and are ready to rebel if this crap continues.

Saturday’s protest was just the latest in a string of massive Melbourne protests since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the latest of several protests in the city to specifically target the proposed bill.

The Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021 passed Victoria’s lower house last month and is set to go through the state’s upper house next week.

The controversial bill would replace Victoria’s current state of emergency laws and give more power to the premier to declare a ‘state of pandemic’ and subsequently implement lockdown restrictions, circumventing the approval of the chief health officer, who has traditionally had the final say in such declarations.

The bill has received heavy criticism, including from Victoria’s bar association, which expressed ’grave concerns’ about the proposed legislation and warned that such a bill would give ’effectively unlimited power to rule the state by decree’ without oversight.

Demonstrators on Saturday also protested against a Victoria vaccine mandate which came into effect this week and requires construction workers in the state to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to be permitted to work and keep their families.

Melbourne has experienced some of the longest and strictest Covid-19 lockdowns in the world. Last month, as the city’s sixth lockdown, came to an end, Melbourne’s total number of days in lockdown since the beginning of the pandemic totalled 262.

In the Netherlands, Protesters took to the streets and clashed with Dutch police in The Hague shortly after caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced strict new lockdown measures to curb Covid-19 cases.

Demonstrators threw stones and set off fireworks on Friday evening, while riot police at one point deployed a water cannon, according to footage and reports from the city. Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!

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