It is doubtful that the Australian government has plans like the US does for apocalyptic scenarios, but given what the plans are, that is probably a good thing for Aussies, seeing what the oppressive states did with the Covid mandates and lockdowns. The presidential emergency action documents that have recently been disclosed show but some of the plans the US executive have in the case of a disaster, such as nuclear attack or an EMP strike that takes down the grid. The emergency and wartime powers will achieve in an instant what the Biden administration is doing right now, including giving wide powers of imprisonment, shut down communication networks (that are still working), impose martial law, and perhaps confiscate guns. This poses a temptation for the political tyrants who rule us, and lust for even more power, to set up a false flag, to make it all happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/us/internet-president-emergency-orders.html
“Newly disclosed documents have shed a crack of light on secret executive branch plans for apocalyptic scenarios — like the aftermath of a nuclear attack — when the president may activate wartime powers for national security emergencies.
Until now, public knowledge of what the government put into those classified directives, which invoke emergency and wartime powers granted by Congress or otherwise claimed by presidents, has been limited to declassified descriptions of those developed in the early Cold War. In that era, they included steps like imposing martial law, rounding up people deemed dangerous and censoring news from abroad.
It has not been clear what is in the modern directives — known as presidential emergency action documents — because under administrations of both parties, none have been made public or shown to Congress. But the newly disclosed documents, which relate to the George W. Bush administration’s efforts to revise the draft orders after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, offer clues.
Several of the files, provided to The New York Times by the Brennan Center for Justice, show that the Bush-era effort partly focused on a law that permits the president to take over or shut down communications networks in wartime. That suggests the government may have developed or revised such an order in light of the explosive growth in the 1990s of the consumer internet.
Underscoring how little lawmakers and the public can infer, another file, from the summer of 2008, mentioned that Justice Department lawyers were revising an unidentified draft order in light of a recent Supreme Court opinion. The memo does not specify the ruling, but the court had just issued landmark decisions on topics that could relate to government actions in an emergency — one about gun rights in the United States and another about the rights of Guantánamo detainees to court hearings.
“The bottom line is that these documents leave no doubt that the post-9/11 emergency actions documents have direct and significant implications for Americans’ civil liberties,” said Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. “And yet, there is no oversight by Congress. And that’s unacceptable.”
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/presidential-emergency-action-documents#gwb