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Australia has recently enacted emergency legislation that suspends certain civil liberties, including allowing the usage of phone data to be used to track and e

• bamboozled 7y ago
  Australia is also good at taking rights away and never giving them back.
  • darkteflon 7y ago
    As an Australian, I can confirm: Australia is _excellent_ at this.
• kwhitefoot 7y ago
  Why is parliament suspended? Here in Norway parliament has given the government the right to act against some statutes but has kept the right to effectively veto things if necessary. A one third minority can block measures under the law passed to deal with the crisis (this has already happened). And we haven't had to suspend any civil liberties yet except for the right to holiday in your cabin in the mountains, go to the pub in Oslo (you can go but they can only serve food), and there are penalties for not quarantining yourself if you are infected or have arrived from outside the country. Pretty much everything is working on the basis that we trust the advice we are given and trust each other to behave well. So far it seems to be working except for a very small number of idiots. Instead of tracking us by mobile the government uses the mobile phone network to send everyone texts to explain what is going on and where to get more information.