Ralph Babet (Victoria, United Australia Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's more than Queensland, more than Tasmania and more than New South Wales combined. He has crippled our state's health system. People are dying at home waiting for an ambulance, which doesn't even show up. That's what's happening. He has overseen the harshest and the longest lockdowns on planet Earth. He was responsible for the highest COVID death rate in the country. He had a pregnant mother arrested in her home—but what for? For a Facebook post. He arrested and pepper sprayed senior citizens. He kept you from seeing your dying relatives and mourning the loss of your loved ones. He had the police shoot innocent people with rubber bullets. He shut the playgrounds. He kept your children out of school. You were arrested for daring to go to the beach by yourself. He divided families and tried to keep you apart for Christmas. He used the pandemic as an excuse to turn my home state, the once great state of Victoria, into a living hell. That's what he did.

As if that were not enough, he himself is mired in scandals and scams that seem to have no end. You know what? There's something new in the paper every single day about Premier Dan Andrews. Here's one: 'Absolute disgrace'—