Liberty Lock down please scan your bar cold your liberty ain't go but yeah it's on

hold where did it come from and where did it go it requires a fight not tweeting from

your phone don't need a king get them off the fucking throne if you're riding

with the thought you've always got a home the virus is scared of will come and he is a Australian politician and given the news in Australia as of late

Specifically in Victoria and you preside over Melbourne is that correct? Yeah, so where'm a state politician in the state of Victoria in the upper house, which is like the

state Senate.

Yeah.

Yes, I mean, I think that the reason I was so anxious to have you on is because the way many Americans, including myself, are viewing Australia is kind of like our dystopic future if we don't prevail in this fight and you know, like obviously I care about Australians as well but I also care about myself a whole heck of a lot so I'm trying to figure out what's happening there how it's happened how we can fight and prevail against this incredible creeping tyranny globally. So let's start there. I mean, what has your experience been over the past 18 months? Are you as stunned by everything that's unfolded as I am?

Absolutely stunned. I, you know, I'm a big believer in individual liberty, right? So to see, to see the rights and liberties of Victorians destroyed so quickly and mercilessly over the last

18 months and it's getting worse is you know really upsetting to anyone

that that cares about freedom you know I think back in March it all sort of started so I was I was first elected in 2018 and you know I hadn't been in politics before, but then in March last year the pandemic became news and the government declared a state of emergency, right?

So effectively what that does under our health legislation, the government has the ability to declare an emergency which gives them special powers.

Now, just only a few months prior to this the government had declared another emergency

due to bush fires right there was lots of fires in our state yeah I remember hearing

about that yeah so and it was really disastrous.

And we, you know, the emergency powers they use then,

they brought in the military to help evacuate people.

They, you know, it gives them the right to override property rights and things like that.

And I think even even libertarians would agree that in emergency situations, you know, maybe, maybe like, you know, to evacuate someone or to trespass on someone's property in an emergency, maybe that's valid.

And actually we were okay with the way that the government used the emergency

powers during the bushfire, right?

You know, we thought they were used responsibly.

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