OK, here’s the deal: Victoria is signed up to the charter of human rights and therefore things like moving freely and protesting ARE NOT ILLEGAL. Neither the BLM protest nor the anti lockdown protests were illegal. All the fines are getting thrown out at the review stage because the government does not want them to go to court as they would be dismissed there too.

The government knows this and therefore let the BLM protest slide, as they agreed with the woke agenda. The anti-lockdown protests are much more dangerous to the government , therefore they are fighting them so hard, but the fines are null and void.

This is why the police are cracking down so hard on ordinary dissenters : it’s theatre to scare people off. But the veil of deceit is thin and more and more people are now beginning to see through it.

Basically it’s all a bluff and a charade, so I suggest that people take those health measures they are comfortable with and ignore the rest.
In many European countries the virus is spreading among the young while older more vulnerable people are being careful. Needless to say the death rate has plummeted there. No major lockdowns are in place. You can leave it up to the people, they are not stupid.

What is happening in Victoria right now is growing civil unrest against what amounts to an illegal dictatorship. It appears that this unrest is not just driven by everyday unemployed and isolated people, and not even a minority of conspiracy theorists, but also business owners, leaders and even the federal government.
It will certainly get very interesting in the coming weeks, but I suspect that it will be over sooner than we think.