Cory Bernardi (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

You may laugh at that, but it is not a joke. It is on its way to happening, with a carbon card trial on Norfolk Island, funded by the government. Do we really want to end up like other nations such as, for example, Japan, where the government has imposed a waistline standard for its citizens, where people are examined annually to make sure that they are not too fat? Such interference, such extreme levels of control, such disregard for personal responsibility and choice has no place in our country. CS Lewis said:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. … The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

This is something that must be resisted—for the sake of personal freedoms and the freedoms that our country was founded upon.