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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
Protests have been criminalised under COVID. What is incitement? How is it being used in the pandemic?Scott Barbour/AAP

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...

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