Australia Builds Its Version of the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was built to prevent East Germans from leaving East Germany. Australia travel law bans residents of other countries from leaving - Rebel News

Actually, Australia is building multiple versions of the Berlin Wall.

Australia is preventing its citizens from leaving the country, even if they are residents of other countries.

The states in Australia are also dividing the country, and restricting travel. Which is more like the old Warsaw Pact in general, than East Germany in particular, but that is another story.

Australian citizens and permanent residents are banned from leaving the country and are required to apply for an exemption to do so, which may be granted for employment, study, or compassionate reasons — such as visiting dying relatives or attending family funerals outside the country. However, if an Australian citizen is normally a resident of another country, they were automatically allowed to leave — at least until the amendment to the travel law went into effect.

They can request an exemption before the return, but Australia has been known - in the age of COVID-19 - to ignore previously issued exemptions to travel. Well, the states have ignored exemptions. I guess the federal government was feeling left out.

In the last 18 months, Australia has gone from being a free, Western democracy, to being a country where travel is restricted, the parliament of at least one state has not met, and that state is being run like a dictatorship, and the cops are happy to put on their jackboots and swing into action. Oh, and government is trying to silence any news organization who reports on anything that the government doesn't like. Sounds a lot like the old East Germany to me.

My guess is that the next step will actually be the creation of something akin to the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, or the Stasi. (That is the Ministry for State Security, for those of you who don't remember the Cold War.)

It is a sad day for the West.