If there’s a connection between the Australian Taxation Office and COVID-19, it can be described in one word:‘dictatorship.
For freedom lovers, Covid demonstrated the wafer–thin line between freedom and overbearing government authoritarianism. In Victoria, for example, many have been shocked by the speed with which the checks and balances on government were dissolved and replaced by a form of dictatorship.
This was done, of course, in the name of the greater good—to save people from disease and death.
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