How the nanny state feeds Australia’s culture wars

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Many citizens feel they aren’t getting enough in return for putting up with nagging, parental governments – so they’re pushing back.

, when he worried that the combination of aggregated humanity and economic hardship could create fascist-style mobs.

Of course, it helps if there’s a grain of truth in your manufactured outrage. For instance, an argument could be made – not by me – that the Australians should have been more sporting and recalled the straying Bairstow. Likewise, the black-and-white responses to human frailty shown by both progressives and conservatives are as counterproductive and narcissistic as identity politics.

Bergwerf’s threats to take the Australian Electoral Commission to the High Court are yet to be carried out. What he has done instead, by founding My Place in the Melbourne sand-belt suburb of Frankston, is to start a community movement that’s gone viral. Reading the group’s manifesto and following their Facebook accounts, I concluded that Bergwerf is serious. Like Lorne Greene in, he really is trying to steer his rag-tag fugitive fleet of Facebook groups, granola market goers, and anti-vaxxers to a place called Earth. In his national television debut, onin April, Bergwerf – standing amid the thrum of a My Place community market in suburban Melbourne – exuded the air of an everyman leader.

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