Is the Australian government abusing its anti-terrorism powers to suppress opposing voices? Shortly after 9/11 in the US, Green Party activists found themselves banned from flying and feminists in San Francisco were investigated for al-Qaeda sympathies. Given the Australian authorities' fine tradition of creativity in defending the status quo (think Joh Bjelke-Petersen's police force), I wouldn't rule out that sort of thing being the unwritten law of the land.
The Age did, though in small print.
Australia is turning into an authoritarian paternalist state like Malaysia, with Howard as a Methodist Mahathir.
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I much enjoy your Australian-watch pieces. OZ has turned rather quickly into a prototype of enlightened fascism. Mandatory detention, character ground evictions and all. Needless to say the "private" media did not cover the case.