Everyone can deliberately get arrested as many times as possible. That’s how Ghandi did it in both South Africa and India, and how Jim Crow was ended in the US.
That’s how Gandhi did it because he had a government that cared about basic human rights. and did not want to appear brutal. The British government also cared about appearances, and the same is true of the other cases you mentioned.
The Australian government doesn’t care at all; human rights and civil rights have ceased to exist. And what’s more terrifying are the rest of the Australian people. The hatred towards the protesters that they were spewing in comments on Twitter threads relating to the protests is blood curdling. They feel the government repression was not brutal enough.
# Everyone can deliberately get arrested as many times as possible. That’s how Ghandi did it in both South Africa and India, and how Jim Crow was ended in the US.
That only works if you have a government that is, at its core, fairly decent, with at least =some= sense of shame.
The reason Ghandi was successful was because he used the inherent decency of the British people themselves as a weapon.
His tactics would not have worked in China, for instance.