Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s 1984 and the strategies used by the dictator Big Brother to subjugate citizens and enforce control will recognise the similarities with the way Chairman Dan has turned Victoria into a police state.
At the start of 1984 Orwell describes a two-minute hate session where citizens are whipped into a state of fear and hatred against the external enemy Goldstein who leads the army of Eurasia about to invade. Making an external enemy the target reinforces the need for a strong authoritarian state led by Big Brother.
Almost every day since COVID-19 first emerged Premier Andrews has held a press conference where the virus is the...
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