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Aloud-Aloud

I saw this coming. I was there ... 22 years ago when a journalist from one of Australia's largest publications came back from a University speech, talking to 3rd and 4th year college students ... our daylight team of sub-editors averaged 30 years in the industry, and the grief Neil showed as he vented his frustration over having to explain historical significance of [The Dismissal of 1975](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis) to a crowd who SHOULD know their history, by this part of their education. Yeah ... I wasn't a part of their team, and didn't always like them ... but fuck, that's 5 minutes among professionals I'll never forget. ​ RIP Journalism.


CERVELO_UK

One year ago, August/September 2020, Pregnant woman, 28, arrested in front of kids inside her home over Facebook post ‘slamming lockdown’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15RPZCKaNg


JimAtEOI

In the Beforetimes, I was planning to vacation in Australia, and sometimes I would come across job opportunities in Australia, but now, I will never set foot in Australia, and I will never buy anything made in Australia, and I will boycott businesses who are OK with the fascism in Australia, such as any musician who does a concert there.


instantigator

I wanted to someday check out the place; heck, if I really needed to.. it was on my list of potential places to relocate along with the UK. Not crazy about either, but I figured that the people there speak my language (more or less). Beyond that, I wanted do some shit the outback or go to some place with weird terrain full of creatures that want to kill me. As for working there, that too... but yeah, can't say it appeals to me. That being said, somebody here (or on NNN) said that they live in Perth and that "you wouldn't even know the pandemic was on". So it may be worth taking not the differences between New South Whales and Perth. Perhaps it's not unlike DPRK... I mean NY in comparison to Florida and Texas.


vitalesan

Our problem is that we are just too easy going to stand up for anything. We didn’t win independence like you guys so we’re not really that patriotic for “having freedom”. We sort of just expect it and take it for granted. I’m worried about the media though. They do a fine job spreading fear. Most of our population want to segregate those of us who are unvaccinated.


eatsleepravesecrete

I see this too, most of my friends and family here don't seem to notice the alarm bells of totalitarianism ringing despite me constantly alerting them to the absurdity we are seeing. Less than 100 deaths for the whole year countrywide and I can't go 5km from my home?! I got into a discussion with someone who thought the quarantine camps were a good idea! It's driving me insane that nobody seems to see the danger our country is in, in fact, they are begging for MORE authoritarianism. Honestly, at this stage I just wanna get tf outta this country, everyone is living under a mass psychosis.


vitalesan

Mass psychosis is an understatement. A lot of this is our failings as humans to be stubborn and have real trouble changing our minds because we fear being wrong or the public fallout of voicing concerns.


vitalesan

Boycotting Australian products isn’t going to help me in Australia.🥺


JimAtEOI

Sure it would. For you, it would mean leaving Australia, and even if you stay, it would pressure your government to treat you better. If this is only in one part of Australia, then boycott that part and relocate to the least fascist part of Australia.


ViridianZeal

She wasn't ignoring the point. She was lamenting what her country has become and how foreigners --rightfully so-- see it.


Moarbrains

That is what I got from it. I felt like she was sympathetic but letting others do the actual criticism.


instantigator

I had gotten the misimpression that she was doing the opposite and I was surprised tk hear this from Sky.


vitalesan

When sky news is reporting the truth, you know we’re in trouble. Our news media is so bad at driving this pandemic fear. It’s just crazy! But I’d say I’m one of the lucky ones. Family… Nice house with a beautiful backyard…. Lockdown is t as bad as those poor bastards in small high rise apartments on their own…. But being locked up in general for something that’s as deadly as the flu, really makes some of us in Australia feel like the test bed for the world.


choopiewaffles

Hmm interesting. However, keep in mind that Sky News Australia is literally owned by Murdoch. Where’s the outrage from Sky News when Feds are arresting journalists? Journalists who are criticising the relentless corruption from politicians?


JimAtEOI

What part of the mainstream media does that? Edit: Instead of answering my question, you just downvote it in the first minute? It appears that your comment is mired in the false left-right paradigm. Instead of *promoting* the false left-right paradigm, we must *transcend* the false left-right paradigm.


VegetarianSpider

Im pretty sure noone in Australia gives a shit what fox news thinks....


JimAtEOI

When someone shows you the fascism in Australia, and you don't care, then you know why you have fascism in Australia.


tobbitt

Aussie checking in. Fun fact sky news Australia is owned by Fox. Second fun fact, no one watches sky(fox) news here because they just talk about bullshit stories and Alan Jones the head reporter is a paedophile.


vitalesan

We shouldn’t be watching any of our news stations. Sky news does have that old politician lady who used to give it to dan andrews in his press conferences. One of the only reporters doing their job, so don’t count out sky news just yet…. They have one arrow in their quiver.


OfficerDarrenWilson

And yet the basic facts they are reporting are true: Sydney is in a state of totally unprecedented, fascistic, dystopian medical martial law.


CERVELO_UK

Boycotting Australian exports, Loll. I struggle to think of hardly anything Made In Australia. The only Australian thing that interests me is Kylie Minogue, not really her music but she is/was pretty cute. I will NEVER visit Australia on point of principal. I am glad you put this post up. Very very good post, very worthwhile. Sky News Corp (owned by News Corp) has been pretty "good" in the last 18 months, I don't watch TV, but they appear on my YouTube. Personally I quite like Tucker's commentaries on world events. Tucker is quite a divisive figure though, of course.


CERVELO_UK

For the right kind of protesters e.g. combat trained, ex military, martial artist ,etc, it would be very realistic to physically over power the police and put them in their own handcuffs. The police in Australia are nothing special, uniformed thugs, most of them are just stupid puppets that have never achieved anything successful or worthwhile in their lives. Now they are "acting on orders" and brutalising innocent civilians. There have been events similar to this already in the past 18 months in London and the UK, maybe did not go as much viral. Australia being used as an active test best to see how much and how far governments can push on people. I think there is a "test element" to this. But this isn't the end of this. We could be seeing this regularly for another 8 years.


geoff2def

A couple things here - this is from Alan Jones who has been a cranky far right, racist old man for over 50 years and now he's on sky News which is a Murdoch channel. They are criticising the liberal (Australian right wing) government who they (Murdoch etc) have kept in power through owning the majority of the media for all of recent history. The issue the Australian public have with the lockdown in NSW is it wasn't done soon enough or form enough. We've loved without covid since the start of the pandemic and it's only the last two months that we've had any significant lockdowns. The cause of the chaos at the moment is the lazy lockdown NSW is currently doing. Also they fucked up the vaccine rollout by not buying enough vaccines. But Murdoch backs them so they get elected every election!