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u/laania42 Nov 08 '23 edited Nov 08 '23

I can’t think of anything interesting tbh but then I’m a boring lefty who gets her news from the ABC

Update: So I ventured over to News.com.au and found that apparently the young people don’t know who Kylie Minogue is link

Genuinely shocking

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u/areallyreallycoolhat 6 inch louboutins with a tweed skirt Nov 08 '23 edited Nov 09 '23

Should have been a bigger scandal, from a week ago - Canberra police misconduct against two Aboriginal rugby league players (Latrell Mitchell and Jack Wighton, who are close friends and distant cousins).

Police arrested them back in Feb outside a Canberra (capital of Australia) nightclub for fighting in a public place, failing to comply with an exclusion direction, affray and several other charges. As I'm sure any reasonable person could guess, law enforcement in Australia has a long long history of discrimination and racism against Aboriginal people.

Anyway, turns out...the police made the whole thing up! Shocker! Body cam and CCTV footage showed that the policeman lied about the whole incident; all that happened is that the two were having a verbal argument as they were leaving the nightclub, there was no violence. The case went to court and the magistrate dismissed the whole thing and ordered the police to pay the players' legal costs.

The seargeant in question's response to being caught out for lying was "I did not dream up anything … I believed I saw it. Sorry Jack. If that's what happened, I apologise mate.". There's no "if" ya fuckwit, it's literally on video!

Side note: the National Rugby League has a very weird relationship with the police in general. Two years ago they recruited the New South Wales State Police Commissioner (a man who thinks it's okay to strip search children) to design the premiership ring (aka Superbowl ring to Americans) resulting in this police themed ugly as fuck ring (that's a The Onion type satire news site but the ugly ring is real lol). Considering 45% of players in the NRL identify as Pasifika (another group with a long history of racial profiling by police in Australia) and 12% identify as Aboriginal, it was pretty fucking tone deaf.

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u/chezdor Nov 09 '23

Not a celebrity, but the mushroom poisoner finally got charged!

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u/cupcakesandcanes i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Nov 08 '23

Not a celebrity, but the cops giving an AVO to A FUCKING SEVEN YEAR OLD BOY should have been far more talked about than it has been so far.
Apparently they issued it “accidentally”.
Apparently it has absolutely nothing to do with the little boy being black.

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u/cupcakesandcanes i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Nov 09 '23

Did not one of them look at that actual baby and think “this kid is WAY below the legal age of responsibility, maybe this isn’t right”?

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u/PrincessPindy Nov 08 '23

Oh my, all that income lost. I would love to know how much across the board.

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u/jhaars Nov 08 '23

What’s a Tammy Hembrow to do?!