Weird, anyway I don't smoke so I can only speak from what I've seen which is lots of people vaping.

I'm guessing it's one of those laws like the smoking with kids in the car one or littering (very rarely, if ever enforced). I've been with friends in public while they vaped, it's not very popular over here however.

I have no issues with speed and phone detection cameras, to be fair we have websites, radio station updates and even maps updates about where they are....so it's not really like they're there without public knowledge.

The ones that are permanent have signs (although this isnt always the case depending on states and territories).

I mean he made people look like idiots yeah but the general reception was that he was winding up the media and that they deserved each other. That's a cultural thing I think, we don't suffer fools.

I won't go into detail but it's Western, I can't speak for the Lebanese gangs cause that seems mostly Sydney but the Bikies thing is, yes, political but has a long history. But from what I know they started cracking down because there had been a series of disturbing crimes which had gained a lot of media attention.

Drive bys, killing people in the light of day around children at public places etc. The bikies have a lot of the gun and drug trade. It's likely the two mix, even if the Lebanese gangs are an issue in Sydney, it's likely they've consulted with the bikies for weapons etc.

Yeah like I said I don't agree with what was our second phase lockdown, it does seem very totalitarian. But people aren't happy about it, the state leaders are receiving death threats.

Nah the economy was actually starting to struggle well before covid19, have you seen our housing prices? Our cost of living is huge and our electricity prices are like the highest in the world.

We have a conservative government that has been in for years because the opposition hasn't got it's shit together. So they were always going to be this way with covid19, conservative and backwards.