Sky News contributor JaneMarwick says it feels like we are living in dystopian “Orwellian parallel universe” amid the arrest of a pregnant woman in Victoria who was arrested for incitement after making a Facebook post.
Sky News contributor Jane Marwick says it feels like we are living in a dystopian “Orwellian parallel universe” amid the arrest of a pregnant woman in Victoria who was arrested for incitement after making a Facebook post.
Vision emerged of a pregnant Victorian woman being arrested at her Miners Rest home - near Ballarat - during a police raid for her alleged involvement in organising an anti-lockdown rally for Saturday. “A pregnant woman in front of her young children, she was compliant, there was no indication that she was going to resist any form of police directive,” Ms Marwick told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “It feels dystopian to me, it feels like we’re living in some horrible Orwellian parallel universe.
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