With every passing day, Australia’s identity as a “democracy” becomes a more distant memory. Instead, Australia is once again the penal colony it was founded as, an island prison with 25 million people trapped inside.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has released his plan for 2022, and it basically amounts to letting him be the country’s dictator for most of the year. He wants the Australian parliament to sit for just 10 days in the entire first half of 2022.