Given that Australia closes its borders and doesn't even allow its citizens to come back can we compare it to a dictatorship like NK? Combined the strict border controls with the rising concerns over press freedom by the Right to Know coalition – an organization advocating for information access – after Australian federal police raided the national broadcaster ABC and a News Corp journalist’s home earlier this year over two stories that were based on leaked classified information.
The media outlets are also calling for improved protections for public sector whistle-blowers – who have been charged for leaking information to the press – as well as an improved freedom of information regime and defamation law reform.
This seems to be common now, journalists being threatened with law suits and social media censorship. What has Australia really become and what is the governments end game?
I don't know if Australia could be the next North Korea, as an island this could be usual measures to protect the population against a new wave of corona. Wasn't the neighbour island New Zealand doing the exact same thing already 1 year ago? The current pandemic enables the government to implement much stricter travel restrictions than before. I think that the government will try to be more strict but this is likely to go change very soon again. The big difference between NK and Australia is that they have lections. If the government doesn't follow the will of the people we will likely see a new government after the next election.