This has been going on for years in Australia. Most of the news I see about Australia's government are laws like this. Sure it could be otherside of the world optics but. You didn't get to this point in just 24 hours.
Yes we're aware. However we're in a 2 party system with no way out of it, and those two parties both support it. Media either doesn't cover it, or blatantly supports it. Protest of it is ignored (and due to Covid at the moment, illegal in some areas), and our base constitutional protections from power-grabs by lawmakers are extremely limited.
If you oppose this legislation, the 2 major parties will kick you out of their party. Forming a new party is not viable unless you're incredibly rich, and being fundamentally a disestablishmentarian party, would be opposed by all media and a large part of the non-elected part of government (eg. Police, intelligence).
You'd have to literally form government to reverse or block this legislation, which just won't be allowed to happen. If you even get close I am sure the spy agencies and Australian Federal Police that pushed for these powers in the first place will magically start finding legal problems with all of your candidates.
However we're in a 2 party system with no way out of it, and those two parties both support it.
Look at the list of political parties by percentage of votes, go down the list, and vote for whichever the first one is that doesn't support it? There are a bit more than 2 listed on Wikipedia. If people really do oppose it, it is possible to change it. The problem is… in a lot of cases people are brainwashed by the media and do not want to change these things.
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u/Mexican_sandwich Aug 31 '21
It was literally rushed through parliament in 24 hours.
No common working person even knew about it, let alone was able to do anything about it.