Australians definitely seem to have embraced living in an authoritarian and autocratic state. There are way too many examples in recent memory:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/09/austr...
Threatening journalists for exposing Australian war crimes:
https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/jail-threa...
And of course how the Australian government has disavowed Julian Assange.
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/australia-julian-assange-wiki...
Dictatorships will be freer for Australians at this rate.