Protests have been criminalised under COVID. What is incitement? How is it being used in the pandemic?
- Written by Maria O'Sullivan, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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The Victorian government is taking a hard line against protests as it tries to get COVID-19 under control. As Premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday,
it’s not the time to protest […] regardless of what you’re protesting about.
In this climate, several people have recently been charged with incitement in relation...