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Australia Could Force Citizens To Report Their Location On-Demand Via
Government Tracking App

https://summit.news/2021/09/02/australia-could-force-citizens-to-report-their-location-on-demand-via-government-tracking-app/
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1433463433236815878
https://summit.news/2021/08/13/authorities-wont-hesitate-to-go-door-to-door-to-perform-covid-tests-on-australians/

The government of South Australia is running a trial for a system that
could eventually force citizens to take a photo of themselves via a
government app to report their location on demand within 15 minutes of
authorities requesting it, or face a police investigation.

Yes, really.

The revelation was highlighted in an Atlantic piece by Conor
Friedersdorf which questions whether Australia can still call itself a
liberal democracy in light of the crippling restrictions it has placed
on its own population.

With no end in sight for the lifting of the country’s brutal lockdown,
Aussies could face even more invasive state intrusion into their
private lives under the justification of stopping the spread of the
virus.

The South Australian government is preparing to roll out an app that
“will contact people at random asking them to provide proof of their
location within 15 minutes,” according to reports.

If people refuse to report their location or are unable to do so,
police are then dispatched to hunt them down.

    “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have
to reply within 15 minutes,” said Premier Steven Marshall.

This is barely much different from literally fitting people with
electronic ankle bracelets that track their every movement like
prisoners under home arrest, a policy that was actually considered by
Australian authorities earlier this year.

    No matter your views of COVID, what's happening in Australia is
alarming, extreme and dangerous. https://t.co/Ep7fOqiHUJ
    — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 2, 2021

“No matter your views of COVID, what’s happening in Australia is
alarming, extreme and dangerous,” remarked journalist Glenn Greenwald.

As we have exhaustively highlighted, Australia has enforced one of the
most draconian lockdowns in the world in an effort to pursue a
disastrous ‘zero COVID’ strategy.

Last month, the Premier of Victoria asserted that authorities “won’t
hesitate” to go “door-to-door” to carry out mandatory COVID tests on
Australians.

Aussies were also ordered not to talk to each other, even while
wearing masks, while people who merely post anti-lockdown information
online could also face fines of up to $11,000 dollars under an
absurdly authoritarian new law.