Commentary Every weekend, numerous rallies are held in the major cities and regional centres against the COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions. These rallies are mostly ineffective and meaningless exercises to halt the transformation of Australia into a bureaucratic and illiberal state. The emergence of a period of capricious authoritarianism in the history of Australia has revealed the ugliness, hidden until recently. Undoubtedly, Australia’s health bureaucracies have adopted oppressive policies, arguably to safeguard the health of citizens. However, the unrelenting, inflexible, and disproportionate use of unchecked power, characterised by the QR code tyranny, superimposed with very intrusive facial recognition technology, has made Australians into a compliant and docile population. Private employers, who encourage their workforce to vaccinate, support vaccine mandates, imposed by state health bureaucracies. For example, Qantas has announced that all people who want to fly internationally, including its workforce, will need to be vaccinated. The Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, …