@jwildeboer
Australia has also used militarised police, censorship, repression (including of journalists), and other authoritarianism to suppress people.

If it's genuine suppression, obviously we wouldn't like it.

You may be right that he's a bit of a right-wing populist like Trump. They don't grow in vaccuums either. We could list a few hundred ways US and UK aid and abet right-wing populists/militias globally, if it means access to resources.

@jwildeboer
We almost forgot our #KevinRuddCoup (2010).

In #Australia our #corporateForces are so effective that the coups happen and we just accept them as part of a rolling news cycle.

#breadAndCircuses