2020 will be remembered as the year in which human rights of Victorians were destroyed, and living in the state became like living in China: a police state without human rights.
How could this have happened under a government of the same Labor Party that only a decade or so earlier proudly passed the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act?
Then Attorney-General Rob Hulls rightly said when introducing the Charter in 2006: “This is a significan…