We noted last week that leading QC Julian Burnside had shown a rather uncharacteristic willingness to live with CCTV. Provided it's used to police Dan Andrews' lockdown of Victoria.

"We are in a war against the coronavirus, and when you're in a war with anything, restrictions on your otherwise normal liberties are justifiable," he told The Age. A view most Victorians seem to accept, if a rather odd one coming from the president of civil rights lobby Liberty Victoria, which swiftly distanced itself from the comments. Or, indeed, from Burnside, whose opposition to CCTV and state surveillance goes back decades.