Nadia Bartel weighs in on Melbourne s brutal lockdown as other privileged and entitled influencers cop criticism for fleeing the city to attend a glamorous event in Perth.
Victoria will enter stage three lockdown tonight with schools closed and only five reasons to leave home - as a Covid cluster grows to 26 with 11 new cases overnight.
Panic buyers have stripped Melbourne s supermarket shelves of toilet paper - with shoppers posting pictures of empty shelves just minutes after it was announced the state would go into lockdown.
Acting Victorian premier James Merlino has refused to give a straight answer about why Victoria is the only state going into a fourth lockdown when he was grilled by journalists at a press conference on Thursday.
Mr Merlino, who is replacing Daniel Andrews while he recovers from a back injury, was continually asked why Victoria was enduring yet another round of tough restrictions as the rest of the country remains open.
Victoria will enter a stage 3 lockdown from Thursday midnight that will last for seven days with schools closed and only five reasons to leave home - as a Covid cluster containing the highly infectious Indian strain grew to 26.
Victoria's latest COVID-19 outbreak has grown to 15 people, with six new cases of community transmission identified over the last day. Speaking in Melbourne on Wednesday morning, Acting Premier James Merlino did not announce any further community restrictions on top of those announced yesterday.