We get to the end of the January holiday period with elective surgery being the topic of the week as we head into Victorian Parliament kicking off again next week and the election campaigns will no doubt start to heat up at both a federal and state level.
Elective surgery to partially resume in Victoria - https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-victoria-updates-new-case-numbers-deaths-surgery-hoped-to-return/632f94ce-8c23-4465-9c94-a33ca348481f
Medical professionals call to be able to manage their own elective surgery capacity - https://www.9news.com.au/national/elective-surgery-victoria-push-for-hospitals-to-manage-own-operations-amid-ban/89c66325-7fc8-40e0-81c0-c4c8cca54816
Link to the Pandemic Declaration Accountability and Oversight Committee - https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/pdaoc?showyear=0§ion_id=1025&cat_id=1025
Pandemic Order Register (all Pandemic Order documents are published here) - https://www.health.vic.gov.au/covid-19/pandemic-order-register
The government promotes a possible third mandate while the Opposition come out against it - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-02/mandatory-third-dose-victoria-political-divide/100796462
Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill - https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/sex-work-decriminalisation-bill-2021