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Australia has gone down this weird crypto-fascist avenue since tony Abbott was elected M. It's alarming to see a country become so repressive in such a short space of time. Of course you could say something similar about the US with the Patriot Act, but at least you could see how that was a reaction to an intense national trauma even while disagreeing with it. The developments in Australia just seem weirdly paranoid.

Politicians in Australia have behind-the-scenes relationships with the U.S.

The 'coup' plotters who brought down ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in favour of ex-Prime Minister Julia Gillard briefed the U.S. embassy on their plan. The U.S. government knew Kevin Rudd was going down before the Australian government did.

I suspect Australia is turning repressive due to U.S. pressure - in turn arose from the Patriot Act and 9/11.

Australia isn't much more than a U.S. satellite at this point.

Julia Gillard's speech to Congress is not simply the head of state of one country to the government of another in the same alliance. It's flattery from an appointed Prime Minister of a satellite state, to the leaders of an empire.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2011/03/10/transcript-jul...

> turning repressive

I'd really love to know a point in Australias' history when it was a more repressed society than today? I think, on the mean, Australia has maintained a nascent imperialist aspect for over a century now .. it certainly got away with its own racial cleansing program.

"Become repressive"?

The thing about Australia is that it is traditionally a very repressive place. If you don't believe me, all you have to do is look under the covers and see what the Australian government - and by extension its people - have done to the native population. It's not a shiny, happy, Crocodile Dundee-hat wearing kind of place, for the most part. In fact the land, the people, the government, and the society are all pitched at the edge of the totalitarian/authoritarian abyss, and have been for a long time.

Without serious imperial control, Australia wouldn't have become the very Western nation it is today - it took real human sacrifice to make the place what it is today.

So I think its just that some of that is shining through, finally. The PR campaigns notwithstanding, Australia can be a very rough place to be. This is reflected in its current governments' crypto-fascism.

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