"Become repressive"? The thing about Australia is that it is traditionally a very repressive place. If you don't believe me, all you have to do is look under

"Become repressive"? The thing about Australia is that it is traditionally a very repressive place. If you don't believe me, all you have to do is look under the covers and see what the Australian government - and by extension its people - have done to the native population. It's not a shiny, happy, Crocodile Dundee-hat wearing kind of place, for the most part. In fact the land, the people, the government, and the society are all pitched at the edge of the totalitarian/authoritarian abyss, and have been for a long time. Without serious imperial control, Australia wouldn't have become the very Western nation it is today - it took real human sacrifice to make the place what it is today. So I think its just that some of that is shining through, finally. The PR campaigns notwithstanding, Australia can be a very rough place to be. This is reflected in its current governments' crypto-fascism.