Literally put people in camps, prevented children from receiving medical care and thus dooming them directly to their parents' ears, and now just says 'nah fuck you we do what we want' when asked to justify it.
People here love to believe that Australia is now a free nation, but they forget that our roots was a prison colony and that the people running the show were jailors. And the reason this is important is because there was never a revolution. We never even tried to strip away these roots. Australia as a nation is literally built upon penal colony law.
The politicians of yesterday were jailors and the politicians of today follow in that tradition. It's why Australia is so strongly a paternalistic nanny state.
The same logic applies to most of the former Commonwealth nations, but yeah Australia is worse off because of that. To be fair America had its authoritarian takeover in the Civil War and our institutions derive from that, even if the rebel spirit still lives.
Literally put people in camps, prevented children from receiving medical care and thus dooming them directly to their parents' ears, and now just says 'nah fuck you we do what we want' when asked to justify it.
Australia has never not been a prison colony.
People here love to believe that Australia is now a free nation, but they forget that our roots was a prison colony and that the people running the show were jailors. And the reason this is important is because there was never a revolution. We never even tried to strip away these roots. Australia as a nation is literally built upon penal colony law.
The politicians of yesterday were jailors and the politicians of today follow in that tradition. It's why Australia is so strongly a paternalistic nanny state.
The same logic applies to most of the former Commonwealth nations, but yeah Australia is worse off because of that. To be fair America had its authoritarian takeover in the Civil War and our institutions derive from that, even if the rebel spirit still lives.