Reported this morning "This time, the protests were mostly peaceful, but it was the police who turned ugly, deploying tear gas, rubber bullets, armoured personnel carriers, and paramilitary riot police."

Foiled in his attempt to do business with Communist China, Andrews is trying out the Communists' policing methods. The man is a brute, using brutish methods in what is supposed to be part of a democracy, but no longer is. Where the bloody hell is the opposition? Is there an opposition?

Suggested by one commentator this morning: the earthquake could have been Divine Retribution for Andrew's "autocratic, authoritarian and disproportionate" reaction to everything, including the call for a return to democracy.

The same commentator likens the police action on the streets of Melbourne with 1970s Belfast.

Ttbn your extreme un-Australian views are well known on the Forum. There were few if any CFMEU members there, just you radical Nazi types.

AC you called for the drunken mob to "give them hell" so your fellow Nazis pissed on the War Memorial and chucked beer bottles at the coppers. Is that your idea of giving them hell?

AC. I simply don't believe that doctors, nurses and teachers, however exhausted and frustrated, would dress in high-vis and piss on the Shrine of Remembrance. It doesn't pass the pub test, even a pub full of construction workers.

Ttbn. It's much more likely that the earthquake was targeting the anti-vaxxer demonstrators. They are the ones God is likely to be mad with. After all he inspired all those scientists to develop vaccines! He must get really tired of people arriving at the Pearly Gates after dying of Covid. 'God, I prayed to you. Why didn't you save me?' 'Well, the rules for surviving pandemics, isolation and masks, have been known for thousands of years, and now I've been sending vaccines to save you, why did you reject my help?'

I wonder how many of the protestors were vaccinated themselves as children? How many have their own children vaccinated? Do they keep up their vaccinations for tetanus, a risk in the construction industry?