I’m not arguing the validity of temporary lockdown restrictions due to public health emergencies. I largely agree with the measures. I’m just pointing out your example of “well our constitution doesn’t explicitly protect this, yet we can all still do it” is really not the same thing as having explicit protections of a freedom.

It’s more applicable with freedom of speech. Australia does not have explicit constitutionally protected freedom of speech. Which is never important until all of a sudden it is!

Look at what happened to the ABC a few years back when the AFP raided them after reporting on the activities of some members of our military.