EXCLUSIVE: Sign of the times as protests against ‘chairman’ Dan Andrews spring up across Melbourne, including a bus demanding ‘Let us out’ - as pressure mounts on premier to get Victoria back to work

A bus plastered with signs calling on Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to be sacked is motoring about Melbourne in protest of Stage Four lockdown. 

The large coach was spotted on Tuesday driving past Victorian Parliament House on Spring Street where the premier holds his daily press conferences. 

The protest comes hot on the heels of an impassioned plea by federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg for the premier to release Victorians from their lockdown hell. 

A bus calling for Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to be sacked drives past parliament house in Melbourne 

A banner calling for the end of Melbourne's lockdown was placed on a footbridge on Kings Way in South Melbourne 

A protester has stuck a sign on his wheelchair calling for Daniel Andrews to be sacked 

The protest bus, which has a sign pleading 'LET US OUT' on one side and 'LET US WORK' on the other, is visiting Labor MPs across locked down Melbourne. 

It has been seen travelling across inner-Melbourne, driving through St Kilda and along the Port Phillip Bay.  

It is understood the bus company behind the protest was put out of business by the restrictions that have crippled the state. 

Across Melbourne, signs of unrest among the community continue to emerge, with a banner spread across Kings Way - a main Melbourne arterial - calling the lockdown a 'Dan-made Disaster'. 

Similar placards and posters have been popping up along roadsides, with people wearing protest t-shirts and plastering their cars with stickers calling on Mr Andrews to end the lockdown. 

One person took to the skies in a plane and flew a banner across Port Phillip Bay calling on the premier to be sacked.   

On Monday, Mr Andrews copped a battering from home and across the border as he warned Melburnians would not be released on October 19 as initially planned. 

Mr Frydenberg called on Mr Andrews to to 'give people back their freedom', declaring 'enough is enough'.

'My message to Daniel Andrews is to get on with it,' Mr Frydenberg told the Today show.

'Stop stringing people along and give them an opportunity to get about their daily normal lives in a COVIDSafe way.'

He cited a letter written by doctors to Mr Andrews, detailing the mental health impact on young people.

'It's just heartbreaking. Not to mention all the small businesses that are losing their livelihoods.'

Many thought the planned protest was a Photoshop stunt. It wasn't 

Police are arresting and fining anyone who fails to comply with Stage Four lockdown laws. Last weekend they hot the beach where many flouted the restrictions 

Journalist Monica Smit has been strongly campaigning for Victorians to be released through a Facebook group called Reignite Democracy Australia 

Signs of lockdown fatigue have continued to emerge over the past few days, with Melburnians flocking to beaches and inner city parks. 

The state has issued more than $27.8 million in coronavirus-related fines since the start of the pandemic, but only 845 of the more than 19,000 penalty notices have been paid. 

Under lockdown restrictions, Melburnians are only allowed to leave their homes for four reasons: shopping for food and essential items; care and caregiving; daily exercise or recreation; and work.  

Exercise must take place within 5km of home, and must be in metropolitan Melbourne.

On Monday, the premier admitted Victoria's active COVID-19 numbers might now be be 'as good as it will get'. 

On Tuesday, 12 new cases of coronavirus were recorded along with one death.

Metropolitan Melbourne’s rolling 14-day average has returned to double digits after increasing on two consecutive days, standing at 10.

Mr Andrews had previously said that average needed to drop to five over a two week period for Melburnians to be released on Sunday - a figure that is now mathematically impossible. 

Someone flew a protest banner across Melbourne calling on Premier Daniel Andrews to be sacked

The protest bus on Spring Street in Melbourne on Tuesday 

A bus is travelling about Melbourne calling on Premier Daniel Andrews to release Victorians 

'It may be at a point where we have to call it, where we have to say that this is as good as it will get — that means there is some greater risk, that means that the task of keeping this thing suppressed will be harder,' he said on Monday.

'If we open up right now, then it will be almost impossible for us to keep this thing contained and every jurisdiction in the world that’s done it has had that same challenge.' 

Retail businesses are expected to remain closed next week as desperate workers plead with the premier to reopen the state. 

The protest bus had received more than 1000 likes on Tuesday.  

'Great idea. I am sure Dan would love this as well as he likes BUSes. He's thrown people under a BUS, he loves his OmniBUS bill and now it won't be long before he's going to get BUSted because the Karma BUS is coming,' one person posted.

Independent journalist Monica Smit took to Spring Street to interview Liberal politicians as the bus cruised by. 

Ms Smit has been actively opposing the lockdown and the premier's controversial Omnibus Bill through a Facebook page called Reignite Democracy Australia, which has gathered more than 24,000 members.

The bill had aimed to lock-up Victorians on mere suspicion of people breaking lockdown laws before it was amended. 

The amended bill will be put at today's sitting of the Victorian Parliament where it is expected to be adopted.