Australia’s most illiberal former Liberal leader John Hewson wants governments to begin randomly testing people for coronavirus.
“Is it too much of a stretch to ask why not Random Covid Testing?” he tweeted on last week.
Well, it might have been a stretch 12 months ago.
But that was before governments started banning midnight kisses, limiting the number of friends we could host in our homes and determining which of us were essential workers.
These days no amount of government interference is a stretch.
The question is not whether police should begin stopping people in the street with shouts of “Swab or I’ll shoot”; the...
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