Australia: Now A Giant Adult Nursery School
New South Wales is policing their citizens like they are 5-year-olds delinquent from nap time.

Anton Nilsson and James O'Doherty write at news.com.au:

Residents in apartment blocks locked-down by NSW Health are having their alcohol deliveries policed as part of a policy to limit the number of drinks being consumed each day.

NSW Health has imposed rules limiting people in "NSW Health controlled buildings" to a certain amount of alcohol each day in a bid to "ensure the safety of health staff and residents".

Residents of the social housing estate have complained that care packages sent by friends and relatives have been searched before they are delivered.

"They are searching all bags and things coming into the building ... They confiscated a series of gifts. So things like bottles of spirits, we weren't allowed to have those and we still (aren't)," Common Ground resident Robin Elhaj said.

Mission Australia's Common Ground building in Camperdown is the latest building where occupants are subjected to the harsh rules.

Residents are allowed to receive a ration of one of the following: six beers or pre-mixed drinks, one bottle of wine, or one 375ml bottle of spirits.

Excess alcohol is being confiscated until lockdown rules are lifted.

Residents can consult with a clinician if they think they need more than the allowed limit.

Australian government housing: Like jail with the illusion of freedom.

Helen Dale at Standpoint Mag on the differences between Australia and the U.S.:

While Australia has an intensely egalitarian culture and commendable social mobility, it is an authoritarian country and its police in particular expect compliance. That's why the world has been treated to video footage of the Bill nicking pregnant women in their homes and dragging protesters out of cars. Australians are both the descendants of convicts and of their gaolers.

If John Locke is the father of the US Constitution and John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith the fathers of British approaches to governance, then Australia's dad is Jeremy Bentham, the bloke who described natural rights as "nonsense upon stilts". He rejected the idea of natural or divinely given rights preceding the establishment of state authority, arguing that rights are creations of law, and without government there are none. Rights, in other words, come from states. The contrast with John Locke is immediate and obvious: for Locke, individuals and their rights come first, and government comes afterwards. The state for Americans is a bottom-up creation where citizens transfer to it by social contract only so much authority as is strictly necessary for mutual benefit and
protection.

Most importantly, where the US favours liberty and rights over democracy and majorities, Australia favours democracy and majorities over liberty and rights. To this day, the country has no Bill of Rights, and what rights do exist (usually at the state level in a federal system) are simple acts of parliament that can be repealed by a hostile government.