J.D. Tuccille Jul 28, 2021 7:00 PM ET Recently, though, Australia’s decline has accelerated with remarkably little opposition. The Sydney Morning Herald even ran a piece headlined: “‘Missing in action’: What happened to the civil liberties movement?” about the tepid pushback against pandemic restrictions. “We don’t have much of a human rights culture, unlike, for example, Canada and America and Europe,” Sarah Joseph, a professor of human rights law at Griffith University, told the newspaper in explanation. “Australia also has no tradition of liberty in a sense Americans might understand, and appeals to freedom are looked at suspiciously,” confirms Morrow.