SA Senator tells America that Australia is a ‘test case’ for a communist-style social credit system

Australia has become a “test case’” for surveillance and a communist-style social credit system, a South Australian senator has told an American audience.

Australia is becoming a “test case” for a new communist-style social credit system, South Australian Senator Alex Antic has sensationally claimed on American television.

The Liberal senator, appearing on conservative American talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight, raised concerns about SA’s home quarantine system, in which a mobile phone application uses live facial recognition technology to confirm the user’s location.

Senator Alex Antic in quarantine after arriving in Adelaide in December. Picture: Facebook

“It takes your facial biometric data and your GPS location and if it doesn’t all match up, then the police come knocking on your door,” Senator Antic told the show.

“This is the sort of stuff you see in Xinjiang in China, and I am very concerned that Australia is becoming a test case for a brand new social credit system.”

The social credit system, being rolled out by the communist government of the People’s Republic of China, is a moral ranking system that monitors the behaviour of its enormous population and awards penalties and rewards.

South Australian Senator Alex Antic returned to Adelaide in December. He was escorted out of the airport and into quarantine. Picture Dean Martin

Senator Antic also likened his experience in a medi-hotel last month to a prison.

“There were meals produced three times a day, the doors knocked on like you’re in prison; you weren’t allowed to come out too soon to get it or too late to get the meal,” he said.

“All of these rules have been effectively put on the Australian people by an unchecked and uncontrolled bureaucratic class in this country.”

Senator Antic was escorted by police into a medi-hotel for 14 days when he returned to Adelaide from Canberra in early December 2021.

The Senator took to Facebook to say he had been “detained” for reasons that were “unclear”.

Senator Antic, an outspoken campaigner against vaccine mandates, insists he is “not an anti-vaxxer” but has refused to declare whether he has been inoculated for Covid-19.

He held the federal government’s legislative agenda to ransom in the final weeks of parliament last year, withholding his votes on government bills until people were given “protections” against state vaccination mandates.

[e-mail]

Originally published as SA Senator tells America that Australia is a ‘test case’ for a communist-style social credit system