Community legal groups have made an impassioned call to have all remaining pandemic period fines for covid breaches withdrawn following a new report revealing how disadvantaged areas – including six in our region – were fined at a rate up to ten times those in Sydney’s highest socio-economic bracket.
We can also reveal that our analysis of Government data shows the region’s fine liability more than doubled throughout year with the peak COVID penalty period.
The report shows a total of 1740 fines for COVID offences handed out to Western Plains residents during the pandemic. Of those fines, 97 were imposed on minors (people aged under 18 years)…