Gotta love our (lefty) State Premier
Daniel Andrews to crack down on boozy MPs with random breath tests
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/daniel-andrews-to-crack-down-on-boozy-mps-with-random-breath-tests-20161223-gth5lw.html
Fresh from a backlash over plans to audit his ministers' phones, Premier Daniel Andrews has another contentious proposal for Victorian MPs: random breath testing at State Parliament.
As politicians enjoyed the usual round of Christmas parties this week, Mr Andrews confirmed he would push ahead with a policy to introduce alcohol testing during parliamentary sittings.
The unusual crackdown was first flagged without warning on the eve of the November 2014 Victorian election, with the possibility of sanctions such as the loss of a week's pay or even suspension.
But many MPs assumed the idea had been consigned to history given little has been said about it since and not one person has been breath tested since the government came to office.
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I hope he can pull this off, even as a symbolic measure that we are not paying for drunks to legislate over us. Somehow I doubt it will happen, but I can hope.