dropdeadfred, Speed limits on roads are coercive. Stop signs and traffic lights are too. I agree the NZ PM Hopkins (not an Australian politician) appears to be doing everyone but you stupidly reckless and dangerous misinformers an injustice by splitting hairs on the definition of coercive in that answer of his.
As the tiny bit you posted is obviously taken wildly out of context my comment on him is qualified as i am unaware of the context in which he said there what he said.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”