{"id":3488,"date":"2021-10-08T05:48:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T05:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2021-10-08T05:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T05:48:45","slug":"victorian-premier-daniel-andrews-fined-for-covid-rule-breaches-after-being-filmed-without-a-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/?p=3488","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews fined for COVID rule breaches after being filmed without a mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian police have issued Premier Daniel Andrews with $400 worth of fines for breaching COVID-19 directions after being filmed without a mask before attending Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Andrews had apologised for the incidents, which took place as he walked across the Parliament carpark to speak to journalists on Wednesday and Thursday mornings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Victoria Police can confirm it has issued two infringement notices to Premier Daniel Andrews for breaching Chief Health Officer directions,&#8221; a police spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Premier Andrews received two fines today (8 October) for not wearing a mask, each to the value of $200.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Footage taken of Mr Andrews arriving at Parliament on Thursday morning showed him walking without a mask from a car before he immediately started fielding questions from the media outside the building.<\/p>\n<p>All Victorians over age 12 must wear a face mask when leaving their home and must wear them in both indoor and outdoor settings, unless they have an exemption.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians and journalists are exempt from wearing masks while working to respond to questions at press conferences or communicate over broadcast mediums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian police have issued Premier Daniel Andrews with $400 worth of fines for breaching COVID-19 directions after being filmed without a mask before attending Parliament. Mr Andrews had apologised for the incidents, which took place as he walked across the Parliament carpark to speak to journalists on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. &#8220;Victoria Police can confirm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news"],"views":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions\/3491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}