A woman is pictured being approached by police outside public housing towers in Melbourne's Flemington during the coronavirus lockdowns. Now the country is a global embarrassment with a people known for their laid-back attitude to life and a healthy anti-authoritarian streak subject to police state conditions including increasingly draconian lockdowns. Police are pictured speaking to a man outside Melbourne Town Hall on May 28 while enforcing COVID-19 restrictions. Victoria recorded 51 new coronavirus cases and seven deaths on Thursday, taking the state's death toll to 701. The curfew will not be removed until there has been a statewide daily average of five or fewer COVID-19 cases for 14 days.

Source: Daily Mail September 10, 2020 16:58 UTC