The Covid-19 pandemic was a gift for Australia’s putative ruling class, says Nick Cater, in this essay for Spiked online.
A self-appointed nomenklatura elite has exploited a public health threat to infiltrate areas of our private lives we once imagined sacrosanct.
They have robbed the Australian people of dignity, denied them agency and demanded complete obedience.
Where they might have drawn on Australians’ abundant reserves of good will and on voluntary compliance, they have instead resorted to central planning and coercion. As a result, Australia has moved closer to the dystopia that Friedrich Hayek warned us about in The Road to Serfdom.
Read the essay here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/03/lockdown-has-destroyed-the-australian-spirit/