Can anyone help ?

[silvernanny22]

My 93 year old friend does not drive or use a computer. She lives alone in a retirement village. Her nearest relative is in regional Victoria. I am her "unofficial" carer. For the past few years I have taken her shopping, to Doctors etc. We live 2 kms from each other in Melb. metro area.

My question is :  Can I still pick her up in my car and take her to the Supermarket?

[davidc4430]

call your local police station

[zanadoo_56 · Accepted solution]

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@silvernanny22 wrote:

My 93 year old friend does not drive or use a computer. She lives alone in a retirement village. Her nearest relative is in regional Victoria. I am her "unofficial" carer. For the past few years I have taken her shopping, to Doctors etc. We live 2 kms from each other in Melb. metro area.

My question is :  Can I still pick her up in my car and take her to the Supermarket?

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If your friend has items she regularly likes to buy I'd go through any old lists and your memory and start compiling a mega list of everything you can remember she has wanted at the supermarket.  That way if the rules get even stricter you can call her and ask what she'd like and check them off your master list and go and buy them for her.

[*kazumi*]

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@springyzone wrote:

I came across this. It isn't relevant to the OP but it suprised me!

You cannot have visitors or go to another person’s house unless it is for the purpose of giving or receiving care. You can leave your house to visit a person if you are in an “intimate personal relationship” with them, even during curfew hours. That is, there is no “bonk ban”.

If your partner lives outside Melbourne and/or 5km of your home you can still visit them. If you stay at your partner’s place after 8pm, you must stay there until the next morning. That is, you can’t go home from there between 8pm and 5am.

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Does this surprise anyone else? I can sort of understand people are allowed to visit a partner but really, couldn't they get there before curfew? If they are driving direct from work, that is another matter I suppose.

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I think what they meant was that you can be in your partner's place after curfew, BUT you have to get there before 8pm, and stay till 5am.  Unless the person works such hours that they do not get home before 8 or have to leave earlier.  I imagine that might apply to some medical staff, or train, tram drivers etc.