Australia has no bill of rights of any kind. Most people are unaware of this, including most Australians. What you're seeing in Australia is simply what happens when you add a pandemic response on top of a nation with no foundational legal protection from government overreach. 
And some of the most controversial measures you're seeing now have nothing to do with Covid. This one for example is just a continuation of a systematic erosion of privacy and human rights by police and intel agencies that's been going on for years.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1434374393703043072?s=20
Australia is a strange case. Westerners assume it's a "free country" because it's a wealthy nation with liberal cultural values whose population is English-speaking and mostly white, but it's simply not.
austlii.edu.au/au/journals/Me…
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The first mistake in believing Australia is a "free country" is believing that it is free. The second is believing that it is an actual country. Take it from a famous Australian whose citizenship proved completely useless protecting him from a globe-spanning power structure:
Australia is not a country, it's a continent-sized US military base that happens to have kangaroos. A globe-spanning empire needs to keep the locals from interfering in the gears of the machine due to its geostrategically crucial proximity to Asia.
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