{"id":629,"date":"2021-07-02T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=629"},"modified":"2021-10-07T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:54:57","slug":"australia-safeguards-democracy-with-no-jab-no-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/australia-safeguards-democracy-with-no-jab-no-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia safeguards democracy with &#8220;No-Jab, No-Vote&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><strong>Canberra, Australia &#8211; July 2nd 2021. <\/strong>The Australian federal government has launched it&#8217;s &#8220;no-jab, no-vote&#8221; initiative today, ensuring the safety of COVID19 vaccinated Australian voters from the unvaccinated. The no-jab no-vote initiative is modelled on the government&#8217;s successful no-jab, no-pay policy which withholds government assistance from parents who refuse to immunise their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s time we all accepted that those anti-vaxxers have no\u00a0place in our democracy&#8221; said the deputy prime minister. In a feat of profound insight only achievable by someone who barely graduated with an undergraduate liberal arts degree, the deputy prime minster continued &#8220;vaccine sceptics<em> know have no reason not to accept that the vaccine provides 100% protection from COVID19 with zero risk, so it makes sense that the vaccinated be protected from contracting COVID19 from the unvaccinated.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;no-jab, no-vote&#8221; legislation was passed in the house and senate on Friday with unanimous support from the two dominant political parties.\u00a0 The law means that voters are now required to show their electronic vaccine passport, proving they are fully vaccinated, before being admitted to polling booths for all federal, state and municipal elections as well as referendums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/qr-code-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/qr-code-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/qr-code-1024x546.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/qr-code-768x409.jpg 768w, http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/qr-code-1536x818.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/qr-code.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>The government will use the vaccine passport app to weed-out voters with unapproved political affiliations and views<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The government said they intend on expanding the utility of the vaccine passport smartphone app to include tracking of information beyond COVID19. The app will be administers by the newly created ministry of truth, headed by the prime minister himself. <em>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the app, so why not use it. Thanks to the vague wording in the no-jab, no-vote legislation, we will be rolling out an update, version1984, to the vaccine passport app to include the tracking of political affiliations and voting history, ensuring that potential voters who are members of political parties unapproved by the government, or have a record of voting for such parties, be barred from voting. It is important that we stop those with unapproved views from subverting our democracy and spreading misinformation that will ultimately lead to political divide&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra, Australia &#8211; July 2nd 2021. The Australian federal government has launched it&#8217;s &#8220;no-jab, no-vote&#8221; initiative today, ensuring the safety of COVID19 vaccinated Australian voters from the unvaccinated. The no-jab no-vote initiative is modelled on the government&#8217;s successful no-jab, no-pay policy which withholds government assistance from parents who refuse to immunise their children. &#8220;I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,25,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-humour","category-oceania","category-politics","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}