If you don't understand why Australia would undermine its own economic and security interests to pour a fortune into America's cold war with China, watch this. Australia isn't allied with the US to protect itself from China, it's allied with the US to protect itself from the US.

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17 Sep
This is an illegitimate military occupation made possible by a CIA-backed coup in 1975 and is being escalated in a move that was shoved through without Parliamentary debate. I as an Australian do not consent to this illegitimate occupation. #YankeeGoHome #auspol
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15 Sep
People who just started paying attention to Australian authoritarianism during Covid often get the impression that it's about the virus, but a lot of our scariest leaps into dystopia have nothing to do with Covid and this descent began long before the outbreak. #auspol
Back in 2019 the CIVICUS Monitor had already downgraded Australia from an “open” country to one where civil space has “narrowed”, citing new laws to expand government surveillance, prosecution of whistleblowers, and raids on media organizations.
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The horrifying Identify and Disrupt bill which allows Australian police to hack people's devices, collect, delete *and alter* their information and log onto their social media passed through Parliament at breakneck speed, and has nothing to do with Covid.
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15 Sep
"Several federal cabinet ministers were called to a top-secret meeting in Canberra on Wednesday ahead of a major international development expected out of the United States on Thursday morning."
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12 Sep
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