Australia’s premiers: the fear mongrels

Anything can be characterised as a threat to national security under China’s recently introduced laws in Hong Kong. It’s a multi-prupose tool for doing whatever the Chinese Communist Party wants to whomever it suspects, fears or hates. 

Australia’s state premiers have adapted a similar political template to our more democratic environment after learning to use it under cover of coronavirus. Almost anything can be characterised as a threat to the safety of a state’s citizens — from infectious disease such as the flu; 310,011 cases, over 800 deaths in 2019, if no new Covid cases turn up, a salmonella outbreak or a dangerous criminal on the loose — and will be used to manipulate border closures to best election…