* Essential industries (food, health care, logistics) were working, some, like abbatoirs, with reduced capacity
* Retail food sales (supermarkets/butchers/bakers etc) open. Cafes/restaurants for take-out or delivery only.
* Other retail closed except for online or click&collect contact free.
* Night curfew 8pm - 5am, relaxed later to 9pm.
* Maximum 5km radius from home unless for work/medical care.
* Only 4 reasons to leave home: essential work, medical care, one person shopping once/day, one hour of exercise.
* Masks whenever in public (not just inside).
Over time, some things got slowly relaxed. The curfew was changed when we got to the start of daylight savings. The radius was relaxed from 5km to 25km. A "singles" or "intimate partner" bubble was established, that allowed people to have one other person outside their household. Then two households were allowed to meet outside the home, but still masked.
At the same time, the government support included $150 if you were being tested and had to quarantine until the results (usually 24h). Then if you were positive or were a close contact and had no sick leave, then there were payments of $1500 for the 14 day isolation/quarantine period.
The Federal government introduced Jobkeeper, which was a subsidy of $1500/fortnight for businesses to maintain employment, and Jobseeker was an extended unemployment payment.
"Penalties of up to $19,826 (for individuals) and $99,132 (for businesses) will apply to employers who issue worker permits to employees who do not meet the requirements of the worker permit scheme or who otherwise breach the scheme requirements.
There will also be on-the-spot fines of up to $1,652 (for individuals) and up to $9,913 (for businesses) for anyone who breaches the scheme requirements. This includes employers, and employees who do not carry their worker permit when travelling to and from work"
https://www.acfservices.net.au/index.php/melbourne-and-victo...
It changes every week or so depending on the cases.
We'll be able to meet with the relatives hopefully after the 9th if everything goes well.
When the roadmap was published the first step of lockdown relaxing was:
> Residents will need to stay within 5 kilometres of their homes and will still only be able to leave home for shopping, exercise, care-giving purposes or permitted work.
> The city's night curfew starts at 9:00pm rather than 8:00pm, and residents can exercise for up to two hours a day, up from one hour.
Pretty strict, but I think the clear steps and threshold being announced were a brilliant approach.