Up to now one of Earth’s freest societies, Australia has become a hermit continent. How long can a country maintain emergency restrictions on its citizens’ lives while still calling itself a liberal democracy?
Australia has been testing the limits.
Before 2020, the idea of Australia all but forbidding its citizens from leaving the country, a restriction associated with Communist regimes, was unthinkable. Today, it is a widely accepted policy.
Yeah, Australia has flown totally off the rails. I had hoped to go there one day but I am guessing that will not be possible within any shorter timeframe than 5-7 years, if ever. Such is life.