I am no longer a twenty-something.
Unfortunately, the government is giving me a terrible birthday present, which is Australia taking a few more steps in really bad directions. Why, we might almost be heading towards a police state, imagine that.

I recently found this article, by Paul Bigoni, for the Toronto Star. It draws scary parallels between the America of today and pre-Nazism Germany and pre-Fascism Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. Big business, and concentrating on economic development above all else, Bigoni says, is part of what led to the rise of those awful states.

The same thing applies to Australia as well. Perhaps even more so - this might actually be the last time I can legally write these things. Australia is flirting with contentious anti-sedition laws that could very well disallow its citizens to openly criticise the government, and urge anti-government ideas and speech. I think that's how the laws go. These are being considered in Parliament right now, and could be passed today.

Highly upsetting.