IIN to have mixed feelings about Australia returning to its roots?

Australia was originally a prison colony for the british. Cheap, mostly expendable labor. The remote location and far proximity made it ideal after the American colony dropped the colony part.

Australia today, by making actual authoritarian policies and laws is reverting the image of just being the more gutsy cousin of the canadians to being pretty much germany in the beginning stages of nazi rule.

They are currently building a quarantine zone in a far remote place and trying to pass it off as a good faith medical necessity. All the while breaking up ANY protest that peaceful Australians want to set up to say No to having such high restrictions as ironically forcing HARDER restrictions causes people do distrust the goverment even more, entrenching the other side to their viewpoint out of fear.

So while not its roots per say; the level of barbarism and goverment control of its population is pretty much the same.