Suzette Meade writes that NSW Premier Chris Minns is copying former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen's authoritarian tactics, claiming that “order” requires the silencing of public voices.
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United States President Donald Trump is making clear to the US people and the world that he is transforming the world’s most powerful military state into a one man, one party-ruled country, write Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
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Following Charlie Kirk's assassination, Trump and his top administration officials have been gearing up to wage war on left-leaning organisations, report Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah.
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Since Brazil’s 2016 parliamentary coup d’etat, in which former president Dilma Rousseff was removed on a later-exonerated technicality, Brazil’s ultra-right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro has made every effort to destroy any remnants of the legacy left by the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT).
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The so-called “nice guy” Premier Mike Baird is introducing laws in New South Wales that are designed to intimidate ordinary people from taking part in legitimate protests. The NSW government’s new anti-protest laws, which it is dressing up as being about public safety, were passed on March 15. Now, despite police minister Stuart Ayres admitting crime rates are falling, the government wants to give the NSW Police Force extraordinary powers to stop protests from even being organised.