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Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Citizens need to enforce and assert their rights there before it's too late.

What rights? Australia does not have a bill of rights. It has a very limited number of fundamental rights outlined in the Constitution but other than that you seem to be pretty much screwed, which explains why these draconian measures always seem to land in Australia first.

Presumably the GP is referring to a conception of rights that exist independently of a piece of paper declaring their existence.

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australia is already a failed state. That happened the second they decided to imprison their populace and started talking about the "New world order." The state has failed its people, and the only thing left is for it to crumble.

Wow, who was it in their government who was discussing a NWO? Do you have any link / source / context?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/austral...

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australia is already a failed state. That happened the second they decided to imprison their populace and started talking about the "New world order." The state has failed its people, and the only thing left is for it to crumble.

Wow, who was it in their government who was discussing a NWO? Do you have any link / source / context?

The chief medical officer of New South Wales said it during a press conference recently

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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This headline is misleading ... "Australian gov" sounds like the Australian Federal government, but the government in question is the South Australian government, which is a State gov.

Came here to point this out too

Plus it's been done already by the Western Australian state government

https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-the-premier...

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Armed rebellion is not always needed to make changes. However just letting the state do what it wants without push back certainly is not going to change things.

It's also currently illegal to organise protests or leave the country.

The first being obvious enough in its abhorrence, and the second being a violation of human rights as defined by the UN. Unfortunately it seems like a large amount of Australians are eager for even more of this authoritarianism. By the time they learn their lesson it will be too late.

Re: Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What rights? Australia does not have a bill of rights. It has a very limited number of fundamental rights outlined in the Constitution but other than that you seem to be pretty much screwed, which explains why these draconian measures always seem to land in Australia first.

Presumably the GP is referring to a conception of rights that exist independently of a piece of paper declaring their existence.

Well how do you enforce a concept? One move would be to introduce a bill of rights
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