Multiple videos have emerged online in the past weeks and months showing Australian police doing what they've dubbed "welfare checks" on citizens, which has involved confronting people at their homes or in public parks to interrogate them on whether they've broken Covid lockdown laws, or in other cases have attended "banned" protests. 

"Have you gone to any protest in the past?" the policeman asked in one video and encounter previously featured in RealClearPolitics. "No, I'm not going to answer that, you guys wouldn't be here otherwise," the man says. "I'd like to know how you got this address, actually." The above Orwellian scenario appears to be happening more and more, as the latest...