Liberty lost The Australian Variant .
The powers that be in Aussie have decreed 'we must lock down'.
Greater Sydney restrictions | NSW Government
Stay at home orders are now in place in South Australia, Victoria and parts of New South Wales.
Covid: Anger as half of Australians in lockdown again - BBC News
"You must stay home,"....."Only leave your home if you have a reasonable excuse."
Aussies took to the streets to protest . Dozens were arrested with the threat to mass arrest .
Warning issued to anti-lockdown protesters ahead of another planned march in Sydney | 7NEWS
Well not enough of them . They are becoming a nation of sheeple.
Coronavirus Australia: Amid border closures and lockdowns, what happened to the civil liberties movement? (smh.com.au)
“Their response is civil liberties have to be sacrificed for the sake of the greater good which is keeping everybody healthy through COVID,” says Wright. “That’s the politicians’ response.”......
“We don’t have much of a human rights culture, unlike, for example, Canada and America and Europe,” she says. “In one respect that might mean we are much more amenable to restrictions on rights which are genuinely altruistic and good for the community such as major lockdowns and border closures, which have in the past served us well.
The problem is they don't have constitutional guarantees of liberty . They did not think they needed them . They are wrong . Gillian Triggs, president of the Australian Human Rights Commission said in 2014 ; "The truth is that, without constitutional guarantees, the measure of our freedom of expression has become that which remains after all the laws that restrict the right have been taken into account,"
Free speech and human rights in Australia | Australian Human Rights Commission
In other words ,when it is governments that grant rights instead of rights being granted by nature's God ,the rights are subject to the whim of the rulers .
Even in the US there must be constant vigilance by the people because the instinct of the government bends towards authoritarian if not properly restrained .