Funny, conservatives acting a 'Praetorian Guard' desperate to do the bidding of the 'powers that be' by attacking any perceived threats. This includes shooting messengers (ignoring the message) and avoidance of confronting power through glib deflections.

Like 'snowflakes' or Fox hosts' dissembling re. Capitol Hill allegedly panicked when realising they had pushed Trump's rigged election claims too far...begged Meadows to help....(let's not get started on vaccinated Fox hosts promoting scepticism round vaccines).

Medicare, as always, will be in the sights of the same radical right libertarians, and service delivery in general, like Indue cards for pensioners (at an exorbitant cost, hence making no economic sense except good for Indue?) and now supporting a Voter ID policy without any evidence of need, masquerading as ensuring integrity?

As Germany discovered in the '30s and '40s of Nazi authoritarian, it was backgrounded by increased bureaucracy, random regulations, nepotism/cronyism, corruption and shambolic administration..... reminiscent of Anglosphere Tories, LNP and GOP....

Poor Andras. He's not the full shilling.

ttbn why bother if you have nothing of substance to contribute except to disrupt any narrative you do not like? I suppose latent authoritarianism is important to protect incompetence of the LNP etc. and nobble democracy for some higher purpose serving authority, very Australian?

Suppressing votes of youth, working age and 'other types' in favour of above median age Anglo-Irish voters is not even original; gerontocracy preferring only those with short term horizons, to vote, the right way....

Late news from the UK:

MPs urge Boris Johnson to halt plans for compulsory voter ID. Elections Bill attacked by cross-party MPs, who say case for photo ID has ‘simply not been good enough’ and move will make it ‘more difficult to vote’

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/mps-urge-boris-johnson-to-halt-plans-for-compulsory-voter-id/

The latter is the whole point and suggests a failure or lack of acceptance of nativist and authoritarian libertarian policies, masquerading as 'conservative' so to remain unchallenged.

Andras Smith,

Duh! You interrupted my narrative because you didn't like it.

I have "nothing of substance"? You have 'Nazis here, Nazis there, Nazis everywhere'. It used to be 'Reds under the beds', now it's Nazis and conservatives. Your Cancel Culture mob can only call people names and chant Marxist slogans, thinking people are going to accept your crap.

Who is doing all this "Suppressing votes of youth, working age and 'other types' …"? You don't know. You just make up nonsense as you go along.

So desperate are you that you are now using one of your hated, so-called conservatives, Boris Johnson's maybe-change-of mind to prop up your rantings. Seriously? You have to use the enemy as an example? An idiot like Boris Johnson?

Nobody is talking about "photo ID" in Australia, by the way. But it's pathetic of your sort - always snapping and snarling about 'Tories' - to use one of them in your vapid argument.

You put up a reference that can’t be opened, and call it the "latter", and "the whole point". Heaven knows what your point is. Probably just to spray about inane gobbledygook like "nativist and authoritarian libertarian policies". Bye bye, Andy. I hope you find your way into the light.