A hard hitting article by Pilger.  One paragraph in particular jumped out at me,

“It is as if our public language has finally become Orwellian. Using totalitarian laws approved by a majority of MPs, the police have set up secretive units to combat democratic dissent they call “extremism”. Their de facto partners are “security” journalists, a recent breed of state or “lobby” propagandist.”

If I hadn’t known I was reading about events in Britain I may have thought it was about Tasmania! If this isn’t the state of affairs here as yet I am sure it very soon will be.