Legislation designed so refugees can be warehoused internationally, shipped around to client states for a fee; laws that strip mobile phones from asylum seekers in offshore gulags. Bills that restrict public commentary. Laws designed to keep children away from truth, keeping them safe, not from a world free of climate catastrophe and the hatred that cycles when you support genocide, but from TikTok and Facebook. A moral crusade, sepia-tinted nostalgia, cosy and comfortable. We’ve been here before.
Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured and must be destroyed. By Dave Milner, The Shot