Caitlin Johnstone: Australia’s not a free country. State surveillance and autocracy are rife because we have no bill of rights
By Caitlin Johnstone, an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her website is here and you can follow her on Twitter @caitoz The Australian government has been on the receiving end of more and more criticism for its Covid response lately, not just domestically but from overseas. There’s a lot to criticize, from soldiers patrolling state borders and policing the streets of Sydney, to people being arrested for merely posting about lockdown protests on social media, to police accessing QR-tracing information and firing projectile weapons at lockdown protesters, to news broadcasters naming and shaming Covid patients who violate isolation orders, to the frequently ineffective hotel quarantine system for travellers being replaced with purpose-built quarantine facilities and Orwellian...
By Caitlin Johnstone, an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her website is here and you can follow her on Twitter @caitoz The Australian government has been on the receiving end of more and more criticism for its Covid response lately, not just domestically...
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