Over the last several weeks, protests have been exponentially building. Now Dan Andrews has claimed yet another world-record - as the object of the biggest protests ever seen in Melbourne.

If you read the media - all mass media - Murdoch or otherwise - you'd think there were a few thousand Q-anon/far right wingers - it's nothing like that. Estimates range somewhere between 200 000 to 500 000. It's a wide cross-section of people that are sick of being lied to/locked-down/vaxxed/vilified/stripped of their freedoms.

Perhaps the issue that most fanned the flames is Andrews' attempt to push his Pandemic Bill through parliament. The bill effectively gives him the power to unilaterally call a state of emergency whenever he wants - which in turn allows him to make up whatever laws he wants - and fine/jail anyone opposing them. It's a bill that turns a democratic state into a totalitarian one.

With so many people now questioning the integrity of the establishment - we're reaching a level that can shake the foundations of society.

We've become an expertocracy - where the the experts think nothing about lying to protect their empire. That seems fine to them, but when enough people lose faith in the experts, the whole artifice starts to crumble.

To the authorities: you brought this on yourself - either resign/change your tune very very quickly - or watch your world come crashing down.

Coz the protests aren't going away - no matter how long the media censors reporting on them - in fact it only fuels them - backs the media further down their dead-end street towards irrelevance.

The thing some people don't understand about protests - they start with a kind of anger - even helplessness - then a determination to do something - but once people begin gathering together they also become fun events. There's a sheer joy when you see different, but like-minded people standing up against tyranny. There's euphoria. There's renewed energy. You realize there's hope.

That's a hard genie to put back in the bottle.