Yes, its unfortunately true that Australia is leading the "democratic" world in repressing liberty and freedom. Australian citizens don't have the most basic rights to enter and leave their own country.
In Victoria they are under the longest, most repressive and most violently enforced lockdown in the world, with a number of COVID cases that is tiny (15 a day) by standards elsewhere.
They have passed legislation enforcing backdoors on encrypted communications.
They have repressed constitutionally protected freedom of movement between states and freedom of political discourse for months.
I've posted more about this here.