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Massive Unrest as The Once Free Australia Adopts China's Authoritarian 'COVID-Zero' Approach
PJ Media ^ | 08/22/2021 | Stacey Lennox

Posted on 08/22/2021 10:04:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind


Screenshot from embedded video of Australians pushing past police barriers in protest of more draconian COVID lockdowns.


The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting illness, COVID-19, has caused mass hysteria on global scale. Perhaps no response is as shocking as what we see in Australia. The country is included in the group of western democracies globally and among the Five Eyes intelligence community members. Yet, the nation’s response to the pandemic can only be described as authoritarian.

A COVID-19 Delta outbreak emerged in Australia in June. The country adopted a “Covid-Zero” strategy early in the pandemic. The government has repeatedly imposed draconian measures, rigorous testing, and closed international borders to eradicate the virus.

Related: Australia Building Quarantine Camps as Military Goes Door-to-Door to Enforce Lockdown Orders

Restrictions started immediately, but the virus continues to spread in Sydney despite five weeks of lockdown. The military began patrolling with police to enforce COVID orders at the beginning of August, including a 10-kilometer travel limit. The deployment occurred after 3,000 infections and nine deaths in a country of more than 25 million. Dr. Kerry Chant, chief health officer in New South Wales, told Australians they shouldn’t talk to one another:

“Whilst it’s human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be friendly, unfortunately this is not the time to do that.”

“So even if you run into your next door neighbor in the shopping center…don’t start up a conversation, now is the time for minimizing your interactions with others, even if you’ve got a mask, do not think that affords total protection, we wanna be absolutely sure that as we go about our daily lives we do not come into contact with anyone else that would pose a risk.”


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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; civilunrest; covid; covidzero; lockdown; policestate; protest; tyranny
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In early August, Melbourne, Australia, imposed a mystifying sixth lockdown because eight cases of COVID-19 were detected. As cases of the Delta variant spread from the early clusters in the cities, nearly every major metro went back to implementing lockdowns. They remain in place and bar people from leaving their homes except for essential exercise, shopping, and caregiving.
1 posted on 08/22/2021 10:04:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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This warning did not deter the protests as thousands of Australians in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane clashed with police. Reuters reports the arrest of hundreds of protestors and seven police officers sustained injuries. In Melbourne, protesters broke the police lines.


2 posted on 08/22/2021 10:05:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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They have not been free since they gave up their guns.

Just finding it out now, apparently.


3 posted on 08/22/2021 10:08:40 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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NOTE: The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison is ( or now was ) considered the MORE CONSERVATIVE Prime Minster compared to the opposition’s candidates - the Labor Party.

One can just imagine what Australia would be like with a Labor Party Prime Minister.


4 posted on 08/22/2021 10:09:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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NOTE: The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison is ( or now was ) considered the MORE CONSERVATIVE Prime Minster compared to the opposition’s candidates - the Labor Party.

One can just imagine what Australia would be like with a Labor Party Prime Minister.


5 posted on 08/22/2021 10:09:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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I think the PM is some chick of Armenian descent.


6 posted on 08/22/2021 10:15:06 AM PDT by EEGator
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“... as The Once Free Australia....”

They lost their freedom when they gave up there guns.


7 posted on 08/22/2021 10:19:36 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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RE: I think the PM is some chick of Armenian descent.

The PREMIER of the State of New South Wales is a Woman - Gladys Berejiklian. She is of the Labor Party ( the equivalent of our Democrats here in the USA ).

I was talking about the PRIME MINISTER of Australia in my post ( the equivalent of our President ). He is supposed to be conservative ( emphasis on supposed ).


8 posted on 08/22/2021 10:20:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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Gotcha, thanks for the correction.


9 posted on 08/22/2021 10:21:06 AM PDT by EEGator
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“So even if you run into your next door neighbor in the shopping center…don’t start up a conversation..."


10 posted on 08/22/2021 10:26:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“ They have not been free since they gave up their guns.”

Better they found out late rather than never. There does appear to be a little bit of testosterone left down under though.


11 posted on 08/22/2021 10:29:26 AM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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It didn’t take long for Australia to go from mostly civilized to a totalitarian dictatorship. Giving up their guns played a large part.

Do not trust your government under any circumstances! Even if things are going well, and you’re getting all your benefits, know that they are waiting until you’re just soft enough, and then they start attaching the chains.


12 posted on 08/22/2021 10:33:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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A Liberal Paradise is not a paradise ? Who knew


13 posted on 08/22/2021 10:35:25 AM PDT by butlerweave
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8641 died from lung cancer in Australia in 2020


14 posted on 08/22/2021 10:39:21 AM PDT by butlerweave
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——A Liberal Paradise -——

I have coined the term Metropia for the progressive ideal city state utopia.

In progressive theory, the total application of progressive ideals is Metropia, liberal Paradise

What has happened is that the Metropias that exist are rotting from within. The progressives are powerless to halt the rot.

As conservatives, we are winning as internal the rot worsens


15 posted on 08/22/2021 10:44:55 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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‘They have not been free since they gave up their guns.’

right, if they’d just kept those guns they could’ve rushed out their front doors brandishing them at the cops and military...


16 posted on 08/22/2021 12:24:21 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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Australia is a test case for globalist tyranny and depop.


17 posted on 08/22/2021 12:32:20 PM PDT by cpt_dave
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Australia's tractor trailer drivers are making plans to block ports, roads, and highways on Tuesday, August 31st starting at 9 a.m. Australia time.

We are taking our country back

18 posted on 08/22/2021 1:30:23 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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Aussie Truckers Mobilize

Hope this is true...

19 posted on 08/22/2021 1:35:16 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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So Now They're SHOOTING ****ING DOGS in Australia to Fight COVID!!

Asterisks mine .

20 posted on 08/22/2021 1:36:48 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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