Australia Breaks Apart

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>The humanitarian crimes committed by Australian authorities against their own citizens beginning in early 2020 will live on in infamy but it is the people themselves who create a nation's history.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>On the 12th of February 2022 the largest gathering of Australians in the nation's history marched on the National Parliament in Canberra to protest the totalitarianism of the Australian Government chanting Sack Them All Sack Them All.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Crowd numbers are notoriously difficult to calculate and prone to distortion but whatever the number no politician intelligence agency police force or political strategist in Australia failed to notice that a massive number of people marched on the nation's capital with a remarkable amount of good cheer jubilance and camaraderie; character traits which the nation's leaders had failed to show in the years of authoritarian derangement.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Between 2020 and 2022 Australia was gripped by a madness which was spiritual administrative political social and judicial in its dimensions. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Australians who stood up against the rising tide of tyranny found themselves pepper sprayed bashed by police fined and imprisoned in dictatorial abuses which made headlines around the world a warning to the world against Covid overreach. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A nation which once prided itself on its laissez faire approach to life and the friendly easy going nature of its population lay besmirched by a descent into totalitarianism. All the systems Australians had come to rely on failed them at their time of greatest need every last one of them: the mainstream media the social media platforms the legal medical and academic professions politicians bureaucrats the police the military and the nation's intelligence agencies. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Australia's democracy proved virus thin.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Retired news reporter John Stapleton shines a light on one of the darkest episodes in the Australian story. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Australia Breaks Apart</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a fine demonstration of the old saying journalism is the first draft of history.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>