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...and it's also been fragmented into effectively 8 separate "countries" since 2020 when each of the state premiers declared emergency (effectively dictatorial) powers for themselves and started running each state in very different ways.

Comments like "still a convict colony" for a story about the state of South Australia don't even make any sense! Same continent, totally separate colony, no convicts!

...and it's also been fragmented into effectively 8 separate "countries" since 2020 when each of the state premiers declared emergency (effectively dictatorial) powers for themselves and started running each state in very different ways. Comments like "still a convict colony" for a story about the state of South Australia don't even make any sense! Same continent, totally separate colony, no convicts!

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no they arent. American stories tell us the state or town.

Americans tend to post stories with 'Australian Government says X all over the country'

A) theres no such thing as 'Australian Government'

B) federal government does not set state laws nor are they able to blanket legislate across states.