Scott Morrison on why Novak Djokovic needs to be vaccinated to play in the Australian Open

If he is not vaccinated he must provide acceptable proof that he cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.  If that evidence is insufficient, then he won’t be treated any different to anyone else and will be on the next plane home – there should be no special rules for Novak Djokovic.

~ Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, "Appalling message’: outrage over Novak Djokovic’s medical exemption to play Australian Open," The Guardian, January 5, 2022

Gary Barnett on Covid totalitarianism around the world

Look at the steps being taken around the world, and understand that all the tyranny and oppression seen in individual countries will soon consume all countries. Every measure taken in China, in Europe, in Australia, in Asia, and elsewhere, including the United States, will not long be isolated to one country or another, but will be the norm everywhere. This is the plan, and it is not accidental, as many of the totalitarian measures being forced on the people around the world are tests to judge compliance, and if successfully implemented in one country, will be transferred to all in time...

The Prime Minister of Australia yesterday, Scott Morrison, stated that  

“Australia should make any coronavirus vaccine compulsory for its 25 million citizens bar medical exemptions.” This comes with the knowledge that the overstated total deaths in Australia have reached only 400 out of 25 million citizens. That is a death rate of .000016%. Does anyone not see the unbelievable and ludicrous nature of such a nonsensical statement? It was obviously a tactic meant to instill great fear in the minds of the people so that total control can be achieved. This was a political mandate that could test the waters of dissent, and once that dissent is squelched, the mandate could become effective. Any vaccine at this stage would be untested and very dangerous, and in addition, would infect an entire population based on nothing other than gaining control over a nation. As I mentioned above, if it happens in Australia, it will be attempted here as well.

~ Gary Barnett, "Virus Insanity: The Obvious Absurdity of it All," LewRockwell.com, August 20, 2020

(According to the Johns Hopkins database, there have been 463 official Covid deaths in Australia so far.)

Jeffrey Tucker on the Covid-19 lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia

This is lockdown ideology at work. It is tyranny without limit, at the expense of all human dignity, decency, and rights. The politicians make a desert and call it health. 

Like everywhere else on the planet, Melbourne will have to reach herd immunity from C-19 at some point. Those who deny that are risking not only liberty and health but civilization itself. 

Perhaps the other states in Australia will observe the destruction in Victoria and learn to take another path when the virus first arrives in their territory, as it surely will. Lockdowns are not science; they are brutality.

I cry for the once-great city of Melbourne this day. May there be justice. And may its future political leadership be granted some modicum of decency and wisdom.

~ Jeffrey Tucker, "Madness in Melbourne," AEIR.org, August 4, 2020

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the global commodity boom

There's no advice to me that would cause me concern about Chinese demand collapsing.

~ Julia Gillard, Australian Prime Minister, "Unease in Australia," Bloomberg Markets, November 2011