Evil is often perpetrated by governments under the guise of ‘safety’ and ‘public health’, as the Nazi years in Germany serve to remind those prepared to recognise history's lessons. True, no one is equating Premier Mark McGowan with Hitler, just their manipulations to keep the populace scared and its anger directed at officially designated villians. In WA's case, that is the rest of the country

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Sooner or later, Australian police will be reminded that 'just following orders' is no excuse for serving as instruments of State oppression. As governments indulge their COVID-era bent for control and punishment in advancing the chilling diktat that vaccination refuseniks have no the right to earn a living, it is incumbent on individual officers to cry 'Enough and no more!'

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It is increasingly clear the principle of legality is no longer regarded as important by some elements of the judicial elite, at least insofar as governments can allege the 'emergencies' they declare justify the enactment of measures that profoundly affect our fundamental rights and freedoms. There is an unsettling precedent for the law's endorsement of the unacceptable

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Speaking as an academic, the news that the High Court had ruled against Peter Ridd was a chilling moment. The suppression of free speech has become a very real thing in many of our universities, with the silencing of minority opinion quite systematic. James Cook University's legal victory has made open and honest debate a dangerous undertaking

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That our individual rights will be protected while the values that gave birth to the concept of constitutional government are being deliberately abandoned is a dangerous assumption indeed. It is also a good reason to value Zachary Gorman's fine new book, 'Summoning Magna Carta: Freedom's Symbol Over a Millennium'

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Despite their self-proclaimed success in the 'war' on COVID-19, Australia's premiers give no indication they are willing to terminate their emergency powers or decrease the use of health directives. Instead, the political establishment has capitalised on public fear and the complicity of a docile, unquestioning press to pursue the gradual consolidation of unchecked rule

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The NSW Premier makes no bones that lockdowns and restrictions are 'the new way of life' in Australia. In Western Australia, the new way of life means police can fit you with electronic ankle bracelets for monitoring non-compliance with public health edicts. Increasingly, the COVID epidemic is about government power and control

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Those advocating obligatory vaccination and 'COVID passports', without which refuseniks would be denied work, travel, even admission to restaurants and sports stadia, are displaying their ignorance of sections 51 and 52 of the Constitution. Simply put, no federal or state government can impose compulsory vaccination or sanction those who decline

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Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews signed up with Beijing's Belt& Road, but much as his admiration for Beijing knows few bounds, his support for China has been mute in comparison with his Western Australian counterpart's advocacy on behalf of the Middle Kingdom

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The Constitution treats everyone equally, regardless of when their ancestors arrived. So why the clamour for indigenous recognition when it is clearly not a racist document? Why is it claimed to be necessary to amend the Constitution when every jurisdiction in this country has already legislated for racial non-discrimination?

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